OTH continues making progress to reopen

15.01.2021
Odfjell Terminal Houston (OTH) continues making progress to reopen truck, rail and marine schedules for ​operations. We are continuously reducing our reliance on portable power and rapidly transitioning to more permanent solutions with expectation for full hydraulic power by this weekend.

Odfjell Terminals Houston continues its efforts to reopen its truck, railcar, and marine schedules for limited operations. We remain reliant on portable power, limiting our operational abilities; however, we expect continuous gains in our efforts towards full operations as we transition from these manually intensive operations. 

Utilities capabilities:

  • The main boiler was brought online January 3, and we have resumed normal steaming capability. The auxiliary boiler remains operational and available if needed. 
  • Other terminal utilities, such as air, nitrogen, chilling, water, and flaring remain operational although reliant on portable power.
  • We consider our utilities to be fully online and functional.  


Pumping capabilities:

  • The locally sourced temporary HPU units were brought online on January 7, providing limited capacity to the terminal’s hydraulic distribution system for additional rail, truck, and marine activities.
  • The two larger hydraulic units from Europe arrived January 4 and are undergoing testing, training, and final tie-in to our plant-wide hydraulic distribution system. 
  • This transitional hydraulic system will allow the ramp-up of product movements over the next couple of weeks providing us full pumping capacity until the new permanent system is online.  


Electrical Power capabilities:

  • We are currently supplying approximately 80% of plant power through a network of portable generators​, with the remainder supported by distributed commercial power. Concurrently, we are repairing our primary systems to resume full distribution of power.  
  • We have established a structured fueling and maintenance program for the generators, as well as onsite backup generators for all sizes to drive electrical reliability. 
  • The increase in distributed ​commercial power will occur in a phased approach over the next several weeks and will replace the portable generators.

 

Our personnel has been working every day since 12/11 to restore operations as soon as possible. OTH remains focused on resuming operations as quickly as possible in the safest manner possible.