Asphalt Blending / Loading Facilities

Relevant Project Experience

Asphalt Blending/Loading Facilities
Project Cost $3,500,000
Trifinery, Corpus Christi, TX

Designed a combination rail and truck loading facility for asphalt and other refined products. The project required underground road crossing, pipe rack, car storage and switching, lighting, metering, fill shutoff, and flush line.
The online Blending System consisted of 3 tanks, direct fired tank heating, pump mixers, the polymer modification addition (PMA) system and polymer storage building.
 

Asphalt Blending/Loading
Project Cost  $15,000,000
Koch Refining, Corpus Christi, TX $15MM

Upgrade Fuel Oil facilities to blend and ship Asphalt by truck, rail and barge. This project included piping, storage and marine facilities.

Latex Asphalt Blending/Loading
Project Cost  $1,500,000
Coastal, Corpus Christi, TX

Grassroots PMA blending facility including storage, metering, rail and truck loading.

Asphalt Tank Heating
Project Cost  $2,000,000
Coastal, Corpus Christi, TX

Retrofitted three asphalt storage tanks with direct fired heaters and larger mixers. Part of the project was bringing utilities to the site.

Asphalt Modernization Project
Project Cost $10 MM
Trigeant, Corpus Christi, TX

BHP redesigned the asphalt plant to upgrade the unit and remove production constrictions. This increased capacity from 23,000 BPD to 30,000BPD. The project included a revamped pre-flash tower, new internals and top for the vacuum tower, upgrade of the heat exchanger train and Vacuum system, replacement of flare tip and KO Drum, new instrumentation and DCS, new control room and electrical utility additions.
BHP Engineering also provided procurement, scheduling and on-site construction control.