NuStar Energy LP NS Company Profile
(NuStar Energy), incorporated on December 07, 1999,Custom bobbleheads 96, is engaged in the terminalling and storage of petroleum products, the transportation of petroleum products and anhydrous ammonia, and petroleum refining and marketing. NuStar Energy operates in three business segments: storage, pipeline and fuels marketing. The Company’s assets include 81 terminal and storage facilities providing approximately 93 million barrels of storage capacity; 8,643 miles of refined product pipelines with 21 associated terminals providing storage capacity of 4.9 million barrels and two tank farms providing storage capacity of 1.4 million barrels; 2,000 miles of anhydrous ammonia pipelines; 1,180 miles of crude oil pipelines with 3.4 million barrels of associated storage capacity. (NuPOP). The Company’s revenues include tariffs for transporting crude oil, refined products and anhydrous ammonia through its pipelines; fees for the use of its terminal and storage facilities and related ancillary services, and sales of asphalt and other refined petroleum products. Its operations are managed by NuStar GP, LLC. NuStar GP, LLC is a subsidiary of NuStar GP Holdings, LLC (NuStar GP Holdings).
NuStar Energy’s storage segment includes terminal and storage facilities that provide storage, handling and other services for petroleum products, specialty chemicals, crude oil and other liquids and storage tanks used to store and deliver crude oil. As of December 31, 2013, the Company owned and operated 48 terminal and storage facilities in the United States, with total storage capacity of 51.7 million barrels; a terminal on the island of St. Eustatius with tank capacity of 14.4 million barrels and a transshipment facility; a terminal located in Point Tupper with tank capacity of 7.7 million barrels and a transshipment facility; Six terminals located in the United Kingdom and one terminal located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with total storage capacity of approximately 9.5 million barrels; two terminals in Mersin, Turkey with total storage capacity of 1.4 million barrels, and a terminal located in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
The Company owns and operates a 14.4 million barrel petroleum storage and terminalling facility located on the island of St. Eustatius in the Caribbean, which is located at a point of minimal deviation from shipping routes. This facility is capable of handling a range of petroleum products, including crude oil and refined products. A two berth jetty, a two berth monopile with platform and buoy systems, a floating hose station and an offshore single point mooring buoy with loading and unloading capabilities serve the terminal’s customers’ vessels. The fuel oil and petroleum product facilities have in tank and in line blending capabilities, while the crude tanks have tank to tank blending capability and in tank mixers. In addition to the storage and blending services at St. Eustatius,Custom bobbleheads 39, this facility has utilized certain storage capacity for both feedstock and refined products to support the Company’s atmospheric distillation unit. This unit is capable of processing up to 25,000 barrels per day of feedstock, ranging from condensates to heavy crude oil. It owns and operates all of the berthing facilities at the St. Eustatius terminal. Separate fees apply for the use of the berthing facilities,Custom bobbleheads 95, as well as associated services, including pilotage, tug assistance, line handling, launch service, emergency response services and other ship services.
The Company’s St. James terminal has a total storage capacity of 8.9 million barrels. In addition, the facility has a rail loading facility and three docks with barge and ship access. The facility is located on almost 900 acres of land, some of which is undeveloped.
The Company owns and operates a 7.7 million barrel terminalling and storage facility located at Point Tupper on the Strait of Canso, near Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. This facility is a marine terminal on the North American Atlantic coast, with access to the East Coast, Canada and the Midwestern United States through the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes system. The Point Tupper facility can accommodate large crude carriers and ultra large crude carriers for loading and discharging crude oil, petroleum products and petrochemicals. Crude oil and petroleum product movements at the terminal are fully automated. Separate fees apply for the use of the jetty facility, as well as associated services, including pilotage, tug assistance, line handling, launch service, spill response services and other ship services.
The Company’s terminal and storage facility in Piney Point is located on approximately 400 acres on the Potomac River. The terminal has a dock with a 36 foot draft for tankers and four berths for barges. It also has truck loading facilities, product blending capabilities and is connected to a pipeline that supplies residual fuel oil to two power generating stations.
The Company’s Amsterdam terminal has a total storage capacity of 3.8 million barrels. This facility is located at the Port of Amsterdam and primarily stores petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel and fuel oil. This facility has two docks for vessels and five docks for inland barges.
The Company owns 50% of ST Linden Terminal LLC, which owns a terminal and storage facility in Linden, New Jersey. The terminal is located on a 44 acre facility that provides it with deep water terminalling capabilities at New York Harbor. This terminal primarily stores petroleum products, including gasoline,Custom bobbleheads, jet fuel and fuel oils. The facility has a total storage capacity of 4.3 million barrels and can receive and deliver products through ship, barge and pipeline. The terminal includes two docks and leases a third with draft limits of 36, 26 and 20 feet, respectively.
Revenues for the storage segment include fees for tank storage agreements, in which a customer agrees to pay for a certain amount of storage in a tank over a period of time (storage lease revenues), and throughput agreements, in which a customer pays a fee per barrel for volumes moving through its terminals and tanks (throughput revenues). The Company’s terminals provide blending, additive injections, handling and filtering services. It charges a fee for each barrel of crude oil and other feedstocks, which it delivers to Valero Energy Corporation’s (Valero Energy) Benicia, Corpus Christi West and Texas City refineries from its crude oil storage tanks. Its facilities at Point Tupper and St. Eustatius charge fees to provide services, such as pilotage, tug assistance, line handling, launch service, spill response services and other ship services.
NuStar Energy’s pipeline operations consist of the transportation of refined petroleum products, crude oil and anhydrous ammonia. Refined product pipelines in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota cover approximately 5,463 miles. The Company’s crude oil pipelines in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas,bobbleheads, Colorado and Illinois cover 1,180 miles. Its anhydrous ammonia pipeline in Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska covers 2,000 miles.
As of December 31, 2013,Personalized Bobbleheads, it owned and operated refined product pipelines with an aggregate length of 3,113 miles originating at Valero Energy’s McKee, Three Rivers and Corpus Christi refineries and terminating at certain of NuStar Energy’s terminals, or connecting to third party pipelines or terminals for further distribution, including a 25 mile hydrogen pipeline (collectively, the Central West System); a 1,910 mile refined product pipeline originating in southern Kansas and terminating at Jamestown, North Dakota, with a western extension to North Platte, Nebraska and an eastern extension into Iowa (the East Pipeline); a 440 mile refined product pipeline originating at Tesoro Corporation’s Mandan, North Dakota refinery and terminating in Minneapolis, Minnesota (the North Pipeline); crude oil pipelines in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and Illinois with an aggregate length of 940 miles and crude oil storage facilities providing 1.9 million barrels of storage capacity in Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado that are located along the crude oil pipelines, and a 2,000 mile anhydrous ammonia pipeline originating at the Louisiana delta area that travels north through the midwestern United States forking east and west to terminate in Nebraska and Indiana (the Ammonia Pipeline).
The East Pipeline covers 1,910 miles, including 242 miles that are temporarily idled, and moves refined products and natural gas liquids north in pipelines ranging in diameter from 6 inches to 16 inches. The East Pipeline system also includes storage capacity of approximately 1.4 million barrels at its two tanks farms at McPherson and El Dorado, Kansas. The East Pipeline transports refined petroleum products and natural gas liquids to NuStar Energy and third party terminals along the system and to receiving pipeline connections in Kansas. Shippers on the East Pipeline obtain refined petroleum products from refineries in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. During 2013, the East Pipeline transported approximately 48.4 million barrels.
The North Pipeline originates at Tesoro’s Mandan, North Dakota refinery and runs from west to east approximately 440 miles from its origin to the Minneapolis, Minnesota area. During 2013, the North Pipeline transported approximately 16.8 million barrels.
The East and North Pipelines also include 21 truck loading terminals, through which refined petroleum products are delivered to storage tanks and then loaded into petroleum product transport trucks. Separate fees are not charged for the use of these terminals. Instead, the terminalling fees are a portion of the transportation rate included in the pipeline tariff.
The Ammonia Pipeline is connected to multiple third party owned terminals, which include industrial facility delivery locations. Product is supplied to the pipeline from anhydrous ammonia plants in Louisiana and imported product delivered through the marine terminals. Anhydrous ammonia is used as agricultural fertilizer. It is also used as a feedstock to produce other nitrogen derivative fertilizers and explosives. During 2013, the Ammonia Pipeline transported approximately 1.3 million tons (or approximately 11.9 million barrels).
The Company’s crude oil pipelines transport crude oil and other feedstocks from various points in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado to Valero Energy’s McKee, Three Rivers and Ardmore refineries. It uses crude oil storage facilities in Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado, located along the crude oil pipelines, to store and batch crude oil prior to shipment in the crude oil pipelines. Its crude oil pipelines also transport crude oil and other feedstocks to the ConocoPhillips Wood River refinery in Illinois. During 2013, the crude oil pipelines transported approximately 133.5 million barrels.
The Company’s refined petroleum product pipelines delivers products to the pipeline from refineries or third party pipelines. Shipments are tested or receive certifications to ensure compliance with its product specifications. It charges its shippers tariff rates based on transportation from the origination point on the pipeline to the point of delivery. It invoices its refined product shippers upon delivery for its Central West System and its North and Ammonia Pipelines, and it invoices its shippers on its East Pipeline when their product enters the line. Shippers on the Company’s crude oil pipelines deliver crude oil to the pipelines for transport to refineries that connect to the pipelines. It uses Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition remote supervisory control software programs to monitor and control its pipelines.
The Company’s fuels marketing operations include the purchase of crude oil and refined petroleum products for resale. The Company’s fuels marketing operations provides the opportunity to generate additional gross margin while complementing the activities of its storage and pipeline segments. These operations involve the purchase of crude oil, fuel oil, bunker fuel, fuel oil blending components and other refined products for resale. The Company utilizes transportation and storage assets, including its own terminals, pipelines and rail unloading facilities, at its St. James, Texas City and St. Eustatius terminals. Rates charged by the Company’s storage segment and tariffs charged by its pipeline segment to the fuels marketing segment are consistent with rates charged to third parties. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests.