Cape Ocean Terminals secures licence to build a petroleum storage facility in Saldanha Bay
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has approved an application by Cape Ocean Terminals for a combined licence to build a petroleum storage facility in the Saldanha Bay Industrial Development Zone and a pipeline connecting the storage facility to Berth 104 at the Port of Saldanha.
The overall greenfield fuel storage terminal development project, named Project Albatross, is envisaged to be built in three phases, bringing the total potential storage capacity to 390 000 m³.
Phase 1, which the energy regulator approved, will consist of eight storage tanks with a licensable combined design capacity of 155 120 m³, as well as auxiliary assets that include pumps, road loading gantries and slops tanks to operate the facility.
Six of the storage tanks have a design capacity of 20 640 m³ each, while the other two storage tanks have a design capacity of 15 640 m³ each.
The pipeline will be 20 inches (500 mm) in diameter and 3 km long, stretching from the tie-in point on the Strategic Fuel Fund Association’s common user bidirectional pipelines to the storage facility.
The auxiliary infrastructure will also include two accumulation tanks.
"The approval of this licence application supports the government’s objectives, particularly the promotion of infrastructure investment, orderly development and transformation within the petroleum sector, while also fostering local economic development in the Saldanha Bay area," says Muzi Mkhize, Nersa full-time regulator member primarily responsible for petroleum pipelines regulation.
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