Written by Nick Blenkey
Sentinel Midstream has cleared the final regulatory hurdle needed for it to go ahead with its planned Texas GulfLink deepwater U.S. crude oil export port.
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Feb. 14 announced that the Maritime Administration (MARAD) had issued the Texas GulfLink (TGL) Record of Decision (ROD) to Sentinel Midstream, LLC, which will own, construct, and operate the deepwater port for the export of domestically produced crude oil, located approximately 26.6 nautical miles off the coast of Brazoria County, Texas
According to Sentinel Midstream, Texas GulfLink will have the ability to safely fully load Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) to export crude oil to the global market. Texas GulfLink will receive crude oil via an onshore crude oil pipeline from the Houston market into above-ground crude oil storage tanks, which will be located near Jones Creek, Texas. The crude oil will be transported via a 42-inch pipeline to one of two floating Single Point Mooring (SPM) buoys in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 32 miles offshore from the Freeport, Texas area…