Corpus Christi oil port eyed
The Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, with the support of several oil companies and the blessing of the US Coast Guard, plans to build a $600-million deepwater harbor to accommodate supertankers. The proposed port, Safeharbor, is touted as an environmentally sound solution to current risks associated with off-loading crude oil from very large tankers at shore ports. In a system called lightering, crude now is transferred from supertankers in deep water to smaller vessels that can negotiate shallow channels. While smaller tankers need only 45 ft of water, supertankers need 80 ft. Corpus Christi has the advantage of being closer to deep water than other Gulf ports, but nevertheless, half the proposed project's cost, $300 million, would be for dredging a 10-mile channel to deep water.
- OSTI ID:
- 6266926
- Journal Information:
- Engineering News-Record; (United States), Journal Name: Engineering News-Record; (United States) Vol. 231:1; ISSN 0013-807X; ISSN ENREAU
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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