Gate Petroleum to build 55 million gallon Jacksonville biofuel terminal
In Florida, Gate Petroleum announced plans to build a biofuel terminal in Jacksonville. The 55-million-gallon terminal will operate on a 139-acre site on the St. Johns River.
The lack of terminal and blending facilities was raised in House hearings yesterday by Agricultural Committee Chairman Collin Peterson as the potential root cause of the ethanol glut.
Recently, new terminal and blending facilities on the US East Coast have been rapidly announced. Motiva Enterprises opened a rail yard in Providence, that can receive as much as 15,000 Mgy of ethanol.
In Maine, Canadian National Railway opened a 150-acre biofuels terminal in Auburn, Maine that can move up to moving 450 gallons of ethanol per minute.
In Iowa, Magellan Midstream Partners opened its new biodiesel blending plant at Clear Lake, IA. The new facility will blend B2, B5, B10 and B20, and includes a 84,000-gallon tank. Magellan’s facility for rack blending, as opposed to the splash blending technique, will provide better fuel mixing in cold weather, accuracy, and one-stop biodiesel loading.
Magellan is also constructing a 145,000-barrels of biodiesel storage facility at its New Haven, Connecticut terminal, and later this year will test transportation of a biodiesel blend via pipeline from Houston to Dallas.
