Terminal News
Between 17-18 October, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched over 1,000 drones at Russia’s St Petersburg oil terminal, Ruchyi Oil depot, the OZON logistics hub and two bridges.
Reports on 20 October have confirmed the resulting damage. At the St Petersburg site, three storage tanks caught fire, with two damaged and one completely destroyed. At Ruchyi oil depot, one vertical steel tank was…
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LNGPH is planning to build a third LNG storage tank at its Ilijan facility, situated in Batangas, the Philippines.
The company will invest ₱6 billion (€84.7 million) into a tank that will add between 100,000-180,000m3 of storage capacity to the site, supporting the company’s move to permanent, land-based storage, rather than relying on floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs).…
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Stanlow Terminals, a subsidiary of Essar Energy Transition, has partnered with Verwater Tank & Industrial Services to support the long-term integrity, resilience and performance of the terminal’s tank infrastructure. The strategic partnership highlights the need for safe, responsible asset ownership, ensuring quality storage infrastructure for customers while supporting Stanlow’s next…
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Oman Tank Terminal Company (OTTCO) has entered into Phase 1.4 of the expansion of Ras Markaz oil storage terminal at the Special Economic Zone (Sezad), Duqm, Oman, with the Trade Bridge project. OTTCO signed a 40km2 land deal for Ras Markaz with Sezad in 2017; the terminal will hold 200 million barrels of crude oil a year and cost around $5.2 billion (€4.6 billion).
The first phase of the…
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Brega Oil Marketing Company held a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday 14 October for its Tajoura Oil Depot project, which is being developed in partnership with OLA Energy in Tajoura, Libya under a Build-Operate-Transfer model.
The project is being built as part of Brega’s 2025-2029 strategic plans to increase storage capacity, upgrade infrastructure, and improve the efficiency of the…
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Firefighters were called to a chemical manufacturing plant in Ulsan, South Korea, where a fire broke out on Wednesday 14 October.
Ulsan Fire Headquarters reported that the blaze was fully extinguished at 1:50pm, around four hours after it started at 9:41am. Around 7,000 workers at the nearby S-OIL Shaheen petrochemicals construction site were evacuated, as well as 12 company workers who were…
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JT Grup Oil, through its subsidiary JT Terminal Constanta, has commissioned its petroleum terminal at the Port of Constanta, Romania.
The terminal, which was completed in August 2026, has eight storage tanks totalling 31,500 tonnes; the capacity to handle barges from 3,000-9,000 tonnes; operate 16 rail tank cars simultaneously; and process up to 100 road tankers per day.
The company has…
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Asharami Ghana has launched a 6,000-tonne LPG storage facility at Tema Oil Jetty, Ghana. The new facility will expand Ghana’s LPG storage by around 10% and represents the first stage of a 12,000-tonne terminal planned for the area.
The planned terminal forms part of Sahara Group’s want to integrate LPG infrastructure, including shipping, storage and distribution.
Godwin Kudzo Tameklo,…
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Vopak Terminals Australia has received endorsement from the New South Wales (NSW) government for its proposed aviation fuel infrastructure expansion project in Port Botany, NSW, Australia. Through the Investment Delivery Authority’s endorsement, the NSW government will provide non-financial support for the project.
The expansion will create around 120,000m3 of capacity, which includes…
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Asiko Energy has completed the development of a 5,000-tonne fuel terminal in Ijora, Lagos, Nigeria.
The tri-fuel gas terminal will integrate LPG, propane and LNG onto a single site, solving three critical market gaps in Nigeria: storage, marine access and truck-out. It is linked to Apapa Port by a 1.7km pipeline with three jetty points.
Chairman of Asiko Energy, Mr. Alex Ogedegbe, says that…
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State-run oil company PDVSA, reported by Reuters, confirmed that Venezuela halted services at Cardon refinery after a fire was started by a ruptured natural gas line. Cardon refinery has a 310,000 barrels per day capacity.
The fire was reported at around 15:25pm in the lubricants area of the refinery – part of the Paraguana Refining Complex – with firefighters and officials from…
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African Terminal & Logistics Services (ATLS) – a subsidiary of Hayel Saeed Anam (HAS) Group – is developing a petroleum terminal at Doraleh Multipurpose Port (DMP), Djibouti, with the aim to link storage facilities directly to the Ethiopia-Djbouti railway.
The terminal will be used to receive petroleum products, transfer them to tanks and store the products before they are dispatched…
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A fuel storage terminal in Robeston West, Milford Haven, UK, used for storing and distributing petroleum products, will stop commercial operations at the end of 2026 after failing to sign a new contract.
The infrastructure, which was formerly owned by Puma Energy and sits on an old oil refinery site, is currently owned by Impala Terminals. The company cited ‘the wider global geopolitical…
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Ivens has celebrated the raising of the first tank roof at the new terminal for Ghent Transport & Storage (GTS), situated at the Port of Ghent, Belgium.
This milestone is the latest in the construction of 17 4,400m3 storage tanks for GTS, led by Ivens. GTS has an overall capacity of 1.7 million m3, offering infrastructure including internal floating roofs, vapour recovery unit, insulated…
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After LNG Canada secured final investment decision earlier this week, JGC Fluor BC LNG II JV, a joint venture between Fluor and JGC Corporation, has been selected to deliver engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction and commissioning for its phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, British Columbia.
Phase 2 includes the construction and commissioning of an additional LNG storage tank and two…
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A fourth tank at Gate terminal at Maasvlakte, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has been completed and will be commissioned from 1 October 2026. Gate is a joint venture between Gasunie and Vopak, where LNG is delivered by ship and stored temporarily in liquid form before being delivered via the gas transmission to customers in the Netherlands and other European countries.
The new tank has an LNG…
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LBC Tank Terminals celebrated the official opening of the third stage of its expansion project – Rainbow 3. Rainbow 3 adds 36 new tanks and 86,000 m3 of storage capacity to the site in Rotterdam Botlek, the Netherlands, as well as a new loading station for rail tank cars.
The next stage for the site is Rainbow 5 Phase A, which will see 14 more tanks added – meaning 42,000m3 of extra…
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Shell Canada Energy has taken final investment decision (FID) for the expansion of the LNG Canada site in Kitimat, British Columbia. The expansion comes after Shell’s annual report predicted a rise of around 65% in global LNG demand by 2040.
Phase two of the expansion project will add two LNG processing units – increasing LNG Canada’s total production company from 14 million tonnes per…
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British Columbia (BC)’s government has given FortisBC an environmental assessment certificate for an expansion at its LNG facility on Tilbury Island, BC.
The certificate allows FortisBC to pursue final investment decision for the expansion, which will include a 142,400 m3 storage tank, a natural gas receiving facility and a liquification unit that will produce up to 2.5 million tonnes of LNG…
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A ground-breaking ceremony will be held on 30 September for the East Africa Oil Refinery in the Port of Lamu, Kenya, with heavy construction materials received at the port on 26 September – marking the first milestone for the construction stage of the refinery. The project aims to strengthen Kenya’s energy security by reducing dependence on imported refined petroleum.
The refinery aims to…
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