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Connections EDITORIAL CONTENTS THE WORLD OF OILTANKING VOL. 28/3 DECEMBER 2016 connections EDITORIAL CONTENTS Contents ASIA PACIFIC 04 New Drive in Indonesia 06 Nanjing’s Growth Process 08 A Project Ten Years in the Making EUROPE 10 Oiltanking Steps on the Gas in Antwerp Perpetual 12 Patience + Perseverance = Prøvestenen 13 The latest “Product Placement” 10 Processes 29 Meet DoRIS GAS 36 From LOTO to LTT The global energy markets have been in turbulent functional skills to support employees, and waters for quite some time. As always, the enhancing their development is an ongoing process. SOUTH AFRICA 05 “Adopt a Spot” unpredictability and uncertainty resulting from The same is true for our commitment to contribute 33 Meeting the Nelson Mandela these ups and downs offer both challenges and to the welfare of the communities in which we 67-Minute Challenge opportunities. With the financial year 2016 coming operate. to a close, we are happy to say that, while Oiltanking Worth The Wait has not escaped any of these dynamics, we have As we work through all of these processes, we keep LATIN AMERICA 17 done well this year. past experiences in mind in order not to lose sight 22 A Place in the Sun of lessons learned for the future. Improvement is 23 “FUEL” in COLOMBIA 24 Success in business cannot be measured by good not a one-time action. It is a perpetual, ongoing Successful First Transshipment OIL financial performance only. We strive to achieve process. By pursuing continuous improvement, we 24 excellence in everything we do. The mindset of are confident that Oiltanking will be well prepared 26 Smooth Operation seeing business as a learning process helps us to to continue being successful into the future. 28 With Full Voice continuously improve. Making our core processes more robust in order to maximize the potential of Read more about some of our projects and our global brand is one of the cornerstones of our initiatives, as you process all kinds of other INDIA 20 Project Enforce growth strategy. We have reinforced our focus on information in this issue, which itself has just 21 “Smilestones” in Turkey asset integrity and risk assessment, and the safety completed the printing process. processes at all our terminals – for colleagues as well as other stakeholders such as clients and Happy reading! PEOPLE 14 We can, we care ... in Assets & Operations contractors – are being carefully reviewed by all line & PLACES 30 Cultural Experiences | EAST Meets management. On March 22, 2017 Oiltanking will WEST in Hamburg 34 conduct a worldwide Safety Day during which 34 Beefing Up on Argentine Asado BEEF corporate, regional and local terminal teams will Daan Vos Koen Verniers In a nutshell contribute to enhancing safety behavior throughout Managing Director Managing Director 42 the Oiltanking organization. To ensure sustainability Oiltanking West Oiltanking East Cover: This “nature in the future, the search for new talent, providing LEISURE & 18 Lexicon | The Petroleum Refining Process vivante” painting is a ENTERTAINMENT 38 Connecting People and Information close-up of the colorful bark of a Rainbow Number | 5 43 Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus IMPRINT connections Vol. 28/3/2016 Published by Oiltanking GmbH, Corporate Center, Koreastrasse 7, 44 Process Peculiarities deglupta). Learn more 20457 Hamburg, Germany, www.oiltanking.com, Telephone +49-40-37099-7485, Fax +49-40-37099-7499 46 The Strategy Process about the natural process E-Mail [email protected] Coordinator Gabi Wuestenberg, Manager Communications Editor Renate Eijkholt that results in this Reader's Corner Design raz design, Hamburg Print BEISNER DRUCK GMBH & Co. KG, Hamburg Published Three times a year 47 kaleidoscopic work of art, Copy Deadline vol 29/1 week 3, 2017 48 Last but not least | Living Art on the back cover. 2 CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS 3 ASIA PACIFIC SOUTH AFRICA New Drive in Indonesia “Adopt a Spot” PERFORMANCE Environmental consciousness at work: Our colleagues The terminal was at the Oiltanking Grindrod Calulo terminal in Durban, built to handle the fuel requirements South Africa, took part in a clean-up-day on July 1, 2016. of a coal mining company in Indonesia Marquard & Bahls and its subsidiaries are committing The OTGC staff already has themselves to minimizing their environmental footprint – a high level of environmental and so are their employees. On July 1, ten colleagues at awareness, and OTGC often hosts presentations and At the end of May 2016, PT. Oiltanking Nusantara Persada commenced the Oiltanking Grindrod Calulo (OTGC) terminal in Durban discussions on the topic. While separate recycling bins are got up early to “walk the talk.” They participated in “Adopt the standard in Durban, their use leaves much to be operations of a new terminal in Sangatta, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. a Spot,” the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) of desired. To encourage mindfulness in others, our colleagues Durban’s environment day initiative as part of “Join the try to set a good example, knowing that the best place to Indonesia is a large archipelago transfers from medium range oil finalized, enabling or ensuring a race to make the world a better place” (theme and slogan start is one’s own backyard. that still relies very much on resource- tankers (approx 30-55,000 DWT) to smooth handover of the project to for 2016 UN World Environment Day). The authority invited based industries such as coal mining. smaller barges, and subsequently Oiltanking’s O&M team. Since the end all stakeholders to help clean the port area, Maydon Wharf, It is also one of the world’s largest delivered to their existing small tanks. of May 2016, PT. Oiltanking Nusantara whereby each participating company was responsible for ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS Please producers and exporters of coal. Its It was a rather inefficient procedure, Persada has managed the site’s three the area close to their own location. scan the QR code to watch our colleagues from Oiltanking Calulo Durban, South Africa, largest coal deposits are located in with KPC incurring vessel demurrage diesel tanks, each with a capacity of participate in a "Clean-up"-day on July 1, 2016 South Sumatra, and in South and East and substantial product losses during 25,000 cbm, as well as a subsea After nearly five hours of bending down to diligently pick up Kalimantan. A large range of domestic the transfers. In 2012, Oiltanking pipeline with a mooring dolphin litter from the roads, the adjacent properties and the beach and international coal mining signed a consulting agreement to located approximately three near the jetties, the companies have settled here and provide planning, designing, kilometers offshore. colleagues had every require substantial quantities of budgeting, permit and tender support reason to be satisfied with diesel. One of the biggest mining to KPC in developing a receiving The Indonesian coal industry their work. Their efforts companies is PT. Kaltim Prima Coal terminal. This project was completed underwent a rapid expansion. really made a difference. (KPC) with an annual production of in early 2014, and was then followed Currently however, due to weak global The area looked more than 40 million tons. This up with another agreement to manage demand and a coal glut, prices are low presentable again, and company alone uses approximately the construction of the project. Finally, and exports are falling. Nevertheless, approx. 25 kg of stray 2,500 cbm/day of diesel to run its towards the end of 2015, an Operations having a terminal in Sangatta will give rubbish had been neatly operations (at peak times: 3,500 & Management (O&M) agreement was Oiltanking a presence in this consolidated into more cbm). According to recent estimates, interesting market, and the team is than 40 bags. the diesel demand in South and East optimistic about finding further Kalimantan generally amounts to four opportunities to grow in this region. million cbm per year. DURBAN RENEWAL The Sangatta terminal project is the The Oiltanking Grindrod culmination of a development process PERSPECTIVE Oiltanking will Calulo terminal is located further step up its business in the harbor of a city that started in 2011/2012, when PT. of rendering services to the that is famous for being Oiltanking Merak proposed a solution mineral resources sector, the busiest port in South for KPC’s fuel-receiving operation. At which plays a vital role in the Africa and a leading the time, KPC relied on ship-to-ship Indonesian economy tourist destination 4 CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS 5 ASIA PACIFIC ASIA PACIFIC Nanjing’s SIDE BY SIDE The construction of the two spherical tanks is also now well underway. Following one month of construction, two spherical tanks were assembled since the end of June 2016. To ensure high-quality welding seams, ten welders worked on the same tank simultaneously to avoid stress concentration during the welding. Welding on one of the spherical tanks was completed in mid-September, and the other the end of October 2016. Each finished tank has a diameter of 15 m and weighs 306 metric tons. Growth 08/2016 With a year of major construction Process nearing its end and completion SUFFICIENT STABILITY Piles with a diameter of 60 cm (PHC600) and scheduled for May 2017, it is time about 12 m long are driven into the soil to provide foundational support to check on the progress of for the cryogenic tank. The total depth of a pile position is 38 m construction at the Oiltanking 10/2015 terminal in Nanjing, China. The agreement between Trammo Shanghai and Oiltanking Nanjing to support Trammo’s growing ammonia trade in China with suitable storage facilities was signed in March 2015. Among other things, it involves the construction of one double- wall full-containment cryogenic tank with a capacity of 50,000 cbm and two pressurized spherical tanks, each with a capacity of 1,500 cbm.
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