Refined Product Terminals and Distribution
Typical clients that Colt serves in this industry include integrated oil company distribution and retail divisions such as Shell, Petro-Canada, Exxon, Valero; pipeline
companies such as Enbridge, Terasen and AEC Pipelines; and fuel distribution facilities at airport authorities such as Vancouver and Toronto.
Project and Business Drivers
Our clients' economic drivers fall under a wide range of business needs including expansions, capacity increases, consolidation and refinery conversions, and legislative mandates changing storage codes and regulations.
Statutory specifications for sulphur-reduced and oxygenated fuels have required implementation of LSG, ULSD and ethanol handling facilities and modifications.
Expertise and Scope of Services
Colt's Toronto and Edmonton operations offer full service multi-discipline engineering, procurement and construction management services for large and small projects.
Key individuals have in-depth knowledge of the design requirements of storage facilities, manifolds, tank foundations and dikes, metering blending systems, storage and product movement automation and control systems.
Design Applications
Colt has a long history of successfully implementing a wide list of design challenges in this industry including:
- API storage tanks ranging up to 500 000 BBL, including underground and aboveground tanks with internal and external floating and geodesic dome roofs
- Civil/structural engineering and site development including tank foundations, containment dikes and berms including geosynthetic membrane liners, drainage systems, rail car and truck loading and off-loading facilities, roads and buildings
- Firewater and foam protection systems
- Dye and product-additive tankage and injection facilities
- Control valves and instruments including PLC fuel control schemes, SCADA, custody transfer metering, level gauging and leak detection systems
- Electrical including motors, power distribution system equipment, grounding and UPS
- Hydrant fueling and bowser loading systems
- Environmental engineering including oily water separators, odour abatement and permitting
- Mechanical design of new, and upgrading of existing, pumps and piping systems
- Vapour recovery units
- Refrigeration systems
- Tank heating and mixing systems
- Manifold and header designs
- Underground and aboveground pipeline delivery systems
Typical Experience
Pipeline Terminal
Colt Engineering was responsible for the engineering, design and procurement for the pipeline initiating station. This terminal, located at the junction of two major pipeline laterals, involves custody transfer meters, leak detection, two
150 000-BBL storage tanks and surrounding tank bays and foam and water fire protection. The scope encompassed the preparation of the project DBM, cost estimate and schedule, preparation of equipment specifications and bid evaluations, detailed engineering design and quality assurance, PLC software development and commissioning, construction support, quality control, preparation of as-builts and O&M manuals and start-up assistance.
Expansion Project
This major project involved provision of front-end and detailed engineering services, procurement and construction management support for new customer connections, metering facilities, a new pipeline terminal, revamps at two existing pump stations and a new pump station. The estimated TIC for the entire project was $160 million.
Receipt terminal to receive product from a blending facility consists of blend storage (160 000 BBL tank), diluent storage (120 000 BBL tank), custody transfer metering, pumps and associated controls, instrumentation, electrical distribution and equipment.
Terminal to receive product from a production facility, consisting of a 180 000 BBL tank (for BDB or PSC service), and a 120 000 BBL tank (for diluent or PSC service), site retention pond, custody transfer metering and prover, booster and mainline pumps, electrical services building (ESB) and associated controls, instrumentation, communication, electrical distribution and equipment.
Distribution Terminal Modification
To support government legislation mandates that require oxygenated fuels injection into all gasoline, Colt is implementing a high-speed-unloading rail and trucking facility for ethanol delivery (10 000 BBL/D), and modifying existing client facilities, so ethanol can be stored and injected into gasoline as it is being loaded into transport trucks
Facilities for ethanol rail and truck unloading will be erected on a greenfield site. The scope of modifications includes a new rail and truck loading/unloading rack (both dual parallel racks), swinging in a new spur from an existing rail line, piping modifications, new storage tank and automated ethanol blending capabilities.
Colt Engineering has overall responsibility for engineering, procurement and construction management to make these modifications, and is also the prime contractor for the project.