THE WORLD OF OILTANKING VOL.17/2 SEPTEMBER 2005 connections TEXAN HARD HATS Visiting the Oiltanking terminal in Texas City, Texas, during an internal chemical meeting Martijn van Koolwijk, Luc Jorissen and Koen Verniers (from left to right) were wearing safety helmets that look like the typical Texan Stetson (see also page 24, 27) AGREEMENT FIRST YEAR Signing of the first Storage After one year Oiltanking Agreement between Texas City successfully Oiltanking Daya Bay and mastered challenges and Huizhou MMA Co. Ltd., accomplished a lot in a on July 6, 2005. short time. EDITORIAL TERNEUZEN/THE NETHERLANDS Carpe diem During the summer months one often hears “Mr Jones is not Holidays and associated travel can be stressful but quiet in the office, he is on holiday and will only return next week”. often, especially when traveling Europe, the language barriers It is a fact life, during these months all of us take some time really get to you. But then again, you see kids from different off to spend time with our families. You will notice that this nationalities playing together on the beach and without know- issue of Connections pays significant attention to this particu- ing each other’s languages managing to communicate and lar period of the year, a period which is called by some (most?) have fun. On holiday stress and how to overcome language of us “the best time of the year”. barriers more in this issue. It is not that at this time we do not have enough to say about I hope you enjoy this issue of Connections and wish you a our business. It’s just our conviction that without dedicated good time back at work and, in case you still have your holi- staff that has had the chance to relax and focus on other days ahead of you, please enjoy the well deserved time off. issues than work, a successful operation is not possible. That’s why the Holiday theme features prominently in this THE “OLYMPIC” the very Gust Spaepen, Managing Director Oiltanking GmbH edition of Connections. first barge which moored alongside the impressive jetty of the OT terminal in Ultra modern terminal Terneuzen in May 2005 taken into operation CHINA Twenty-two months after the celebration of the formal construction start Start of construction the Oiltanking chemical terminal in Terneuzen was officially taken into I On Thursday, July 21, Petrochemical Industrial Park operation on August 1, 2005. With its strategic location near the mouth over 2005, Oiltanking Daya Bay into the largest petrochemi- the river Scheldt the terminal will be a perfect gateway in the middle (OTDB), People’s Republic of cal complex in South China. of the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) region. China, held its ground- The terminal capacity is breaking ceremony on the expected to reach 100,000 site to signal the commence- cbm by the end of the I On Sunday May 22, 2005, the very first barge moored Terneuzen B.V. on October 2002. Since the start of construc- ment of construction work decade. alongside the impressive jetty of this new independent and tion works, 45 kilometer of pipelines, over 50 pumps, almost for its terminal. The ceremo- General manager, Yeong state-of-the-art chemical terminal. The discharge of its naph- 3.500 valves and 24 cup tanks (‘a-tank-in-a-tank’) were built. ny was attended by well- Kwek Leong, currently leads tha served to commission the vapor recovery unit. From that At this point in time the terminal has a storage capacity of wishers made up of govern- the organization. Presently period onwards the extensive phase of commissioning and 155.500 cbm. In the final phase the terminal will reach a mental officials, customers his team includes Tan Kim testing started in order to have the full official start-up on capacity of approximately 335.000 cbm. Understandable, that and neighbouring plants. Chuan (engineering), Davy August 1, 2005. And they managed to meet the deadline, a large part of the products are stored for the neighboring OTDB will start off with 4 Yuan (business develop- thanks to the nonstop hard work of Marc Tesselaar (Terminal chemical complex of Dow Chemical, but there is also capacity storage tanks (15,550 cbm) ment), Grace Li (accounts & Manager), Marc Van De Merlen (Project Manager) and their available for third party customers. dedicated to the MMA plant finance), Johnson Zhang new crew. On some occasions more than 300 constructors The Terneuzen terminal lays on the Mosselbanken, which is a belonging to Mitsubishi (construction) and Nancy Xu were present at the site. fast developing harbor area located between the main ports of Rayon Corporation of Japan. (human resource & adminis- Antwerp and Rotterdam. Together with the Oitanking termi- FOUNDATION STONE for the Phase 1 construction work It is the local government tration). The building of the terminal was initiated by a 15 year stor- nals in Antwerp and Gent, the facility in Terneuzen will now on July 21, 2005 vision to develop Daya Bay’s age agreement signed between Dow Benelux and Oiltanking form a perfect triangle or in marketing terms ‘Storage3’. 2 CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS 3 NEWS SINGAPORE NEWS SINGAPORE INTERESTING FACTS Ready to take off I A Boeing 777 is powered Majulah! (Go forward) by two Rolls RoyceTrent On June 1, 2005, Oiltanking Singapore engines. One engine (OTS) successfully commissioned after weights 6 tons (8 times On July 20, 2005, Oiltanking Singapore celebrated its groundbreaking ceremony a tight construction schedule their airport the average car). of the building of a new terminal of 240,000 cbm tank storage capacity – phase 6 – I A fully loaded Boeing for clean petroleum products at Seraya Place on Jurong Island, Singapore. quality JET A1 system which was 747-400 holds enough especially constructed for a contract Rozzani Bin Rebin (left) fuel to fill 2700 midsize with an oil major, one of the anchor and Tey Cheng Chee, OT cars, about 216,000 liters, Singapore, carrying out a and is filled in about 40 customers at OTS. visual quality check on a JET AI sample minutes. I During refueling, a Boeing 747 reduces in height by I In addition to a newly mous and therefore it is fuel to barges supplying up to 2 meters. constructed loading system essential for each organiza- Singapore’s Changi Airport I Changi airport handled and various adjustments to tion which is part of the air- safely and with documentary 30.35 million passengers the existing infrastructure, port supply chain to have evidence. and 1.78 million tons of two 10,000 cbm tanks were apart from special infrastruc- Both the infrastructure and cargo in 2004. In the lined, provided with floating ture also an effective quality the quality system comply same year it also recei- suctions, filter water separa- assurance system in place with the stringent guidelines ved a total of 19 awards tors, micro filters, fast flush that requires meticulous for aviation fuel quality and accolades from inter- and sample systems and a recording and documenting control and operating pro- national organizations and static dissipator additive of all operations. OTS has cedures for jointly operated publications, among Busi- BREAKING THE GROUND for injection system. It is obvious developed with the assis- supply and distribution facili- ness Traveler magazine Oiltanking’s fourth terminal in that the potential conse- tance of the oil major an ties (JIG) as well as the which voted Changi as Singapore, (from left): Mr. Chia quences of a failure to supply extensive quality system in oil major’s internal quality “Best Airport in the Kim Piow, Managing Director of the correct on-specification order to ensure that OTS requirements. World”. Rotary Engineering Ltd., Mr. Tharman Sharmugaratnum, product to aircraft are enor- delivers dry, on-specification Minister for Education and Rutger van Thiel, Managing Director OT Singapore I In about one year from the groundbreaking, the new The new terminal will further strengthen Oiltanking’s key posi- state-of-the art tank terminal will be completed. Initially, the tion in the port of Singapore and will provide its highly valued Improved port turnaround terminal will have a capacity of 240,000 cbm and two jetties customers much needed additional tank and jetty capacity in for vessels up to 110,000 dwt. It will be connected by order to successfully expand their business in the challenging I Through consolidation of load and discharge operations pipelines over a distance of four km to Oiltanking’s existing Asian oil market. of their chemical tankers, Oiltanking’s joint venture partner three terminals located on the eastern edge of Jurong Island. in Singapore Odfjell can improve the turnaround and reduce The facility will comprise of two tank farms with six and nine time in port. On April 24, 2005, the M/T Bow Sun success- tanks with a capacity ranging from 6,000 cbm to 20,000 cbm. fully performed such an operation, alongside the Oiltanking After completion Oiltanking’s total capacity in Singapore will Odfjell terminal (OOTS). There are 17 terminals and 40 amount to 1.3 million cbm of which 1.1 million for petroleum different berths for chemicals in Singapore, and Bow Sun products. Today, Oiltanking operates 900,000 cbm of storage was scheduled to load and discharge a total of 16,800 tonnes capacity for petroleum products, of which 180,000 cbm is a of 22 different grades at eight terminals. These operations joint venture with neighboring Power Seraya. should in theory take 5.5 days, but in practice much longer The terminals have excellent accessibility by water through due to congested berths and unforeseen delays.