In Guatemala, Chevron S.A. plans to invest in the expansion of the capacity of its hydrocarbon storage plant, which is located in the municipality of Puerto Barrios, Izabal.
According to the interactive platform "Construction in Central America" of CentralAmericaData's Trade Intelligence area, Chevron Guatemala S.A., submitted to the Ministry of Environment the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to develop the project called "Expansion of fuel terminal storage capacity of Puerto Barrios."
The Honduran government approved the adjustment to the price of freight for the transport of fuel to the interior, which was set at $2.42 per kilometer, which corresponds to the cost per round trip.
The new tariff was made official by means of the Sen-026-2019 Agreement, which was issued by the authorities of the Secretariat of Energy and published last October 24.
The company AES Panama launched its liquefied natural gas storage system in the province of Colon, from where it plans to supply the entire Central American region.
This liquefied natural gas (LNG) distribution system will supply the 381 MW thermal plant located on site, also owned by AES, which began operating in August 2018.
The construction of an oil pipeline and a maritime terminal in the Pacific for the transfer and storage of fuels, are some of the projects planned to develop the state-owned Recope in the next eight years in Costa Rica.
The construction of a new plant for storage and sale of clean products in Liberia, and the polyduct connecting this plant with Barranca, is one of the large-scale projects that the Costa Rican Petroleum Refinery (Recope) plans to develop in the coming years.
In the Panamanian airport, 600 thousand gallons of jet fuel are consumed every day, and it is estimated that in the following months demand will increase by 50 thousand gallons.
The current capacity of the infrastructure only allows for storage of 1.4 million gallons of jet fuel, which is only enough to cover demand corresponding to two days of operations at the airport.
The Panamanian Supreme Court of Justice has revoked the resolution that had approved the environmental impact study to build an oil pipeline that would supply fuel to Tocumen airport.
The ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice comes just a few days after the same institution received aninjunction against a project to build a port terminal on Isla Margarita, Colón, with an estimated investment of $600 million. Also annulled by the Court, in mid-January, was an EIA to set up a150 MW wind farm, which was to be built in the Fortuna forest reserve.
The first phase of the Liquid Boiler Terminal comprises the construction of four storage tanks for liquids such as solvents and vegetable oils, and will be finished in March 2018.
The goal of the liquid products storage terminal whose construction has started at the port ofCaldera, Puntarenas, is to provide storage services for chemical products such as solvents, and vegetable and animal and oils. The company in charge of the project has not ruled out requesting permits to store other products, like fuels in the future.
The consortium FCC and Felguera IHI won the contract to build an oil storage terminal belonging to the Dutch company Vopak in Bahia Las Minas, province of Colon.
From a statement issued by FCC Construction:
The new terminal will be located next to the existing Chevron terminal of 509,000 mbc (thousand of barrels of crude) in Panama.It will have nine storage tanks for marine oil, fuel oil and clean petroleum products (diesel, gasoline and Jet A) with a total capacity of approximately 360,000 m3.The project also includes new tank, additional marine infrastructure, including the construction of wharves for mooring vessels up to 80,000 DWT (deadweight tons).
So far this year Chevron has invested $8 million in the opening of three stations and plans to start expanding the storage terminal in Acajutla.
The project to expand the storage terminal operating in Acajutla consists in increasing capacity"... by about 150 thousand barrels of fuel with the operation of two other tanks which will come online next year." Currently the plant has six tanks for diesel and gasoline, with a storage capacity of 300,000 gallons.
Maple Resources Corporation is planning to invest between $75 million and $100 million in a plant with capacity to process between 10,000 and 40,000 barrels of oil per day.
Guatemala could have its first refinery to process between 10,000 and 40,000 barrels of oil per day.
Tender conditions are being prepared for a contest which will be launched in the coming months for the construction of sewers and installation of water storage tanks in Puerto Mutis, Veraguas province.
In addition to the water works, the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) said it plans to build a naval base to provide greater safety for tourists visiting the area.
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