Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 -- Oiltanking GMBH, Hamburg, plans to build Indonesia's first deepwater storage terminal for petroleum products and gases and is expanding elsewhere.
The Indonesian terminal, to be built in two phases at Merak in West Java's Banten province, will eventually have a capacity of 600,000 cu m.
Theo Pangraz, project manager of PT Oiltanking Indonesia, said the first phase will be operational by the second half of 2007 with an initial capacity of 200,000 cu m. He gave no estimate for completion of the second phase.
The terminal, which will be able to berth ships of up to 100,000 dwt, will serve as a distribution terminal for the Jakarta area.
Separately, Oiltanking said expansion of tank capacity at its facility in Texas City, Tex., will be commissioned in the fourth quarter.
The first phase of expansion at Oiltanking Texas City will add 100,000 cu m of capacity with new tanks suitable for naphtha, aromatics, ethanol, and gasoline.
Oiltanking last December announced construction of an additional 185,000 cu m tank space for clean petroleum products at its terminal under construction at Seraya Place on Jurong Island, Singapore.
It said Phase 1 of the new facility currently under construction consists of 240,000 cu m tank space and two jetties for vessels up to 110,000 dwt and will be commissioned in August.
It said Phase 2, consisting of 185,000 cu m and one additional jetty, would be ready in December.
The new 425,000 cu m oil terminal will be connected by 4 km pipelines to Oiltanking's existing three terminals on the eastern edge of Jurong Island.
After completion in December, Oiltanking's total tank capacity in Singapore will amount to 1.5 million cu m, with 1.3 million cu m of the total for petroleum products.
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