By Sergio Chapa
San Antonio Business Journal
A Dallas-area midstream company has plans to add super tanker service to an export terminal it is building at the Port of Brownsville.
JupiterMLP LLC – which is leasing 240 acres at the port, with plans to build dozens of crude oil and refined product storage tanks with pipeline, rail, truck and tanker service — is seeking to add an offshore export terminal capable of servicing the largest ships in the world, the company announced.
Addison-based JupiterMLP has started engineering, permitting and design for a project known as the Jupiter Offshore Loading Terminal. It plans to build the export terminal 6 miles off the Texas coast, where it can service very large crude carrier, or VLCC, tankers.
Among the largest commercial ships in the world, VLCC tankers can move more than 2 million barrels of crude oil per load. Although the Port of Brownsville is planning to deepen its shipping channel from 42 feet to 52 feet, VLCC tankers ships require 82 feet of draft. As a result, they must be transloaded by smaller tankers in deeper water or serviced via pipelines at offshore terminals.
The offshore VLCC project will require permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and other agencies, Jupiter CEO Tom Ramsey told the Business Journal.
A Dallas-area midstream company has plans to add super tanker service to an export terminal it is building at the Port of Brownsville.
JupiterMLP LLC – which is leasing 240 acres at the port, with plans to build dozens of crude oil and refined product storage tanks with pipeline, rail, truck and tanker service — is seeking to add an offshore export terminal capable of servicing the largest ships in the world, the company announced.
Addison-based JupiterMLP has started engineering, permitting and design for a project known as the Jupiter Offshore Loading Terminal. It plans to build the export terminal 6 miles off the Texas coast, where it can service very large crude carrier, or VLCC, tankers.
Among the largest commercial ships in the world, VLCC tankers can move more than 2 million barrels of crude oil per load. Although the Port of Brownsville is planning to deepen its shipping channel from 42 feet to 52 feet, VLCC tankers ships require 82 feet of draft. As a result, they must be transloaded by smaller tankers in deeper water or serviced via pipelines at offshore terminals.
The offshore VLCC project will require permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and other agencies, Jupiter CEO Tom Ramsey told the Business Journal.
The company has obtained some permits for its onshore project at the Port of Brownsville, where it has been cleared to build storage tanks for 2.5 million barrels of crude oil and refined products. Ramsey said the company plans to develop a portion of that capacity soon.
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