Sugar Land, Texas-based Rangeland Energy on Thursday announced plans to build a new refined products and LPG terminal hub in Corpus Christi, Texas. Rangeland said the South Texas Energy Products Systems (STEPS) would store products that will ultimately be shipped to inland terminals in Mexico. Marine facilities and infrastructure to store crude oil and other commodities will be added to the system in later phases. The terminal is expected to be in service in the first quarter of 2017.
Rangeland recently agreed to buy a 190-acre property for STEPS that is located along the Kansas City Southern Railroad line and within five miles of the Port of Corpus Christi and local Valero, Citgo and Flint Hills refineries. Products will be shipped out of the facility by rail initially, but the terminal could be expanded to connect to pipelines vessels, Rangeland said.
Rangeland previously developed a crude oil rail, storage and pipeline system in the Bakken it eventually sold to what is now Crestwood Equity Partners. Last year it commissioned a 300-acre rail terminal in New Mexico to support crude oil and condensate production in the Delaware Basin.
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