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These facilities will include a 140,000-barrel several domestic storage depots, including facil-
depot in Aguascalientes, a 425,000-barrel depot ities with a capacity of 640,000 barrels each now
in Monterrey and a 505,000-barrel depot in under construction in the cities of Puebla and
Guadalajara, he said. Mexico City.
Overall, he added, these efforts will also bring These facilities were built for Valero by IEn-
the firm’s Mexican storage capacity up to 6mn ova, the Mexican subsidiary of California-based
barrels. They will also allow Valero to “have our Sempra Energy. IEnova also built the company’s
products in the high-demand markets delivered 2.1mn-barrel fuel terminal in Veracruz and is
in an efficient and secure way,” he said. due to begin constructing a 1.1mn-barrel depot
The company has already begun work on at Altamira in May of this year.” ™

EL SALVADOR
SAAM Towage to take delivery of

tugboats for EDP’s LNG terminal

SAAM Towage of Chile said earlier this week agreed conditions,” he commented. “It was an
that it was preparing to take delivery of two new enormous challenge. Completing it successfully
tugboats that will be used at an LNG terminal in will help us provide the best service to Energía
El Salvador’s Acajutla port. del Pacífico.”
In a statement, SAAM Towage said that its The company has said it expects to invest
contractor, the Turkish shipbuilding company about $1bn in the LNG project in El Salvador.
Uzmar, had recently completed the two ships, It intends to use these funds to install or build a
which will be known as SAAM Centzunat and floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU)
SAAM Acaxual. Both of the RAstar 3200W ves- offshore Ajacutla, a gas-fired thermal power
sels will go into operation at the Acajutla termi- plant (TPP) with a generating capacity of 378
nal that Energía del Pacífico (EDP) is building, MW and a 44-km double-circuit power trans-
it noted. mission line that will tie the TPP into the Central
It will be more than a month before the boats American Electrical Interconnection System
begin regular service. They are due to depart (CAEIS).
from the Turkish port of Izmit on March 12 Additionally, it has hired Boskalis (Nether-
and will be at sea for 40 days before arriving at lands) to build a subsea pipeline connecting the
Acajutla. FSRU to the power station and Elecnor (Spain)
The Chilean company went on to say that the to engineer and build the 230-kV power cable
tugboats had been specially designed by Robert and all associated substations. ™
Allan Ltd (Canada), to meet EDP’s needs at the
Acajutla terminal. The vessels are 32 metres long
and have a bollard pull of more than 80 tonnes, it
stated. They have a top speed of more than 13.5
knots, and each has been outfitted with Kongs-
berg US255 FP azimuth thrusters and two CAT
3516C 2,350-kW engines, it said.
Additionally, it said, the boats were built to
meet the highest safety standards for LNG ter-
minal operations, as specified by the buyer. Their
equipment, design features and construction
comply with the top category of Bureau Veritas’
escort and firefighting standards, it added.
SAAM Towage did not comment on the
value or terms of the contract. It did, how-
ever, quote technical manager Pablo Cáceres
as saying he was glad that the tugboats could
be completed, even though the coronavirus
(COVID-19) pandemic has not yet died down.
“The project was a success, despite the pan-
demic’s particular complications, which we were
able to navigate together, while staying on sched-
ule and in concordance with the previously The SAAM Acaxual was built in Izmit, Turkey (Photo: SAAM Towage)

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