According to the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration, The Biden administration has approved plans to build the nation’s largest oil export terminal off the Gulf Coast of Texas. The terminal would add 2 million barrels per day to the U.S. oil export capacity.
The approval by the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration was filed in the federal register this past Monday without any public announcement, a day after the United Nations’ annual climate conference concluded in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt.
In its 94-page decision, the Maritime Administration wrote, “The construction and operation of the Port is in the national interest because the Project will benefit employment, economic growth, and U.S. energy infrastructure resilience and security. The Port will provide a reliable source of crude oil to U.S. allies in the event of market disruption.”
The offshore oil export terminal is the first to be approved of four proposed along Texas’ Gulf Coast. Approval of the Sea Port Oil Terminal, off the coast of Freeport, about 50 miles south of Galveston, will allow its corporate developers, Enterprise and Endbridge, a huge advantage in building the first new offshore export terminal in the Gulf. It was the agency’s first endorsement and followed a three-year review process.
One more item of interest, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its approval of the project last month, also without a public announcement.
According to the Maritime Administration, the project will expand a Houston-area terminal operated by Enterprise and connect it to a new 140-acre onshore facility near Freeport with 4.8 million barrels of storage capacity.
From there, two 36-inch underwater pipelines will run to the new deepwater port, 30 miles offshore, where two 24-inch floating crude hoses will load it onto the world’s largest class of crude tankers.
At least 14 giant pumps with a combined output of 86,000 horsepower will be needed to move the oil from Houston to Freeport and then out to the offshore terminal.
The project will create 62 permanent jobs, plus up to 1,400 temporary construction jobs, according to the Maritime Administration.
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