Port Authur and Gulf Coast Crude Oil Demand. Image courtesy Kansas City Southern Railroad
Class I railroad carrier, Kansas City Southern Railroad, will bring rail cars loaded with crude oil, refined petroleum products, petrochemical, ethanol and methanol from the major origination terminals in North America to the Reata Marine Terminal for the storage and transloading to one of the world’s premier refining centers in the U.S. and where demand is over 1.5 million barrels per day of feedstock is required to run at full capacity.
The terminal will have the ability to receive unit trains that can be unloaded within 24-hours of arrival and will be able to store over 1.6 million barrels of storage in its initial development phase with an additional 1.0 million barrels of storage to be added in Phase II, all with floating roof tanks each with 100,000 barrels of shell capacity. Phase II storage development will include blending and finished products capacity based upon customer requests and market conditions. The facility will have a state of the art unloading system that will be connected to a pipeline infrastructure that delivers volumes to the storage tanks and to the deep—water docks at the Port of Port Arthur. The terminal has priority access to two barge berths and one deep-water berth. There will be product dedicated pipelines installed at the dock to facilitate loading from the storage tanks and/or rail cars into marine vessels to market destinations.
The Reata Marine Terminal will receive products by rail cars, ships, barges, and trucks with outward movements by ship and barges to destinations worldwide. A 6-station truck rack will be constructed simultaneously with the rail track construction to allow for immediate product loading and unloading by truck.