-Applied LNG will break ground on its new multi-liquefier LNG production platform in Midlothian, Texas, on Thursday. The Midlothian Plant will have production capacity of 86,000 gallons per day of LNG per liquefier and total on-site storage of up to 1.5 million gallons. The facility is expected to be operational in mid-2015.
-Sunoco Logistics Partners is seeking approval from Pennsylvania regulators to build 2.4 million barrels of NGL storage at a facility outside Philadelphia. Via Reuters, Sunoco is planning to build tanks that would hold 1.5 million barrels of propane, 600,000 barrels of butane and 300,000 barrels of ethane. Sunoco earlier this month said it would move forward with a $2.5 billion project to expand its Mariner East NGL pipeline.
-A storage silo at a Midwest Fuels plant in La Crosse, Wis., exploded and caught fire this morning, prompting a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents. Via the Associated Press, firefighters were able to extinguish the burning silo, which contained diesel fuel and asphalt. One person was injured and transported to a nearby hospital.
-The town of North Pole, Alaska, could see its tax revenues drop by as much as 20% next year as a result of the production halt at the local Flint Hills Resources refinery. Flint Hills stopped production of gasoline, jet fuel and heating fuel at the refinery this summer, citing rising environmental costs related to sulfolane contamination the company blames on the site’s previous owners.
-Total will shut down a lubricant production unit at its Gonfreville, France, refinery to focus on higher quality base oils, Reuters reports. The project will be completed by next fall. Base oil production will drop by half to 800 tonnes per day.
