Project Introduction:
The Texas GulfLink Terminal Project will construct a Deepwater Oil Port near Freeport, Texas capable of loading deep draft crude carrying vessels. The Deepwater Port will deliver crude oil via an onshore crude pipeline from Webster, Texas and above ground crude oil storage tanks. Upon nomination from the crude oil shipper, the oil will be transported to one of two floating Single Point Mooring (SPM) buoys in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 29.5 nautical miles offshore, via a 42-inch pipeline. The SPM buoys will allow for Very Large Crude Carrying Vessels (VLCCs) to moor and receive up to 2 million barrels of crude at a rate of 1.4 million barrels of crude per day to be transported internationally. A manned offshore platform, equipped with round the clock port monitoring, custody transfer metering and surge relief will provide assurance that shipper’s commercial risks are mitigated and the port is protected from security threats and environmental risks.
Key Facts
Texas GulfLink is very mindful and sensitive to the project’s impact to local wildlife. Texas GulfLink completed extensive environmental and wildlife impact analysis. The project’s construction and installation methodology and techniques will mitigate any impact to wildlife and wetlands as identified by those extensive evaluations.
Texas GulfLink is an infrastructure development firm. Texas GulfLink will construct a safe, economical solution to provide oil producers an option to export their barrels to international buyers. The project will be funded by private equity, encompassing a mixture of both equity and debt financing.
Texas GulfLink will alleviate Port Freepoint congestion currently caused by vessel to vessel oil lightering.
In the unlikely event of a spill, the facility will deploy on-site oil spill response equipment to immediately respond to the incident. Texas GulfLink will also have strategic relationships with local Oil Spill Response Organizations (OSRO) that will furnish additional resources to ensure that environmental and wildlife impacts are reduced.
In the unlikely event of a spill, the facility will deploy on-site oil spill response equipment to immediately respond to the incident. Texas GulfLink will also have strategic relationships with local Oil Spill Response Organizations (OSRO) that will furnish additional resources to ensure that environmental and wildlife impacts are reduced.
Texas GulfLink has assembled a team of subject matter experts that have more that 115 years of combined experience with the design, construction, operations and management of a Deepwater Port. Texas GulfLink will leverage that experience as past prudent operators to ensure a safe and effective port.
Port Freeport offers the ideal topography and proximity to the necessary water depth to safely load a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC).
Texas GulfLink is working with Port Freeport to ensure that the port tenets and surrounding infrastructure are not adversely effected by the construction and operation of this project.
Texas GulfLink is an infrastructure development company. We are not involved in the exploration, production, refining or marketing of crude oil. The project will provide a safe and economical conduit for any domestically produced oil barrel to get to its desired marketplace.
Where is this crude oil going and why don’t we keep it here in the US when we are still importing foreign oil?
The United States is quickly becoming a net exporter of crude oil production. The majority of US oil production is of a light sweet grade, but the majority of the US refining complex is designed to refine heavy sour oil, which is primarily produced in the Middle Eastern part of the world. US refiners can only process a fraction of the domestically produced oil. The rest of the world’s refiners have a growing affinity for the light sweet barrels of US producers. The Texas GulfLink project will not disadvantage local refiners or any of the local employees or vendors.
Where economically and time based appropriate Texas GulfLink will aim to employ locally based contractors, personnel and vendors.
Texas GulfLink will provide crude oil producers with a safer and effective solution to ship their production to its desired marketplaces.
Texas GulfLink will employ between 40-60 full-time personnel.
The Texas GulfLink offshore terminal will be nearly 30 miles offshore, preventing line of sight from any citizen on the beach, enjoying time with their family.
The Texas GulfLink offshore pipeline will be buried underneath the Gulf of Mexico sea floor.
Texas GulfLink will have an identified security zone, with twenty-four hour, three hundred sixty-five day monitoring surrounding the facility.
The oil entering the Texas GulfLink facility will not be refined prior to entering the facility, nor will Texas GulfLink refine the crude before it is loaded for export.
The Texas GulfLink facility will decommission and remove the offshore platform in accordance with industry and agency standards, if the economic environment dictates facility closure.
The oil entering the Texas GulfLink facility will be domestically produced, primarily originating from West Texas.
Current oversupplied production is currently being lightered offshore in state waters for export to destined marketplaces.
Unlike the BP Macondo disaster, Texas GulfLink is not directly tied to production wells. Our facility design will the necessary safety and pipeline protection devices to minimize any potential spill.