The Project will provide much needed deep-water port facilities. It will be capable of unloading the ever increasing numbers of large crude tankers carrying imported foreign crude oil and partially refined crude oil through an efficient, state-of-the art marine terminal.
In March 2003, an application to develop the project was filed with the Port of Los Angeles (Port) and the Notice of Preparation was issued in early June 2003. This project conforms to permitted uses detailed in the current and future Port Master Plan. The proposed berth area is near Angels Gate and remote from the Wilmington and San Pedro communities.
The Project will construct a new berth on Pier 400, Berth 408; crude oil storage tanks on Pier 400 and Terminal Island; and associated pipelines to bring crude oil from the waterfront to the storage tanks. Crude oil would be offloaded from tankers into the storage tanks and pumped to local refineries. The Pier 400, Berth 408 Project will be constructed with infrastructure to allow appropriately equipped vessels to connect to and use shore-side electrical power, as the world tanker community evolves to support this technology.
The proposed project will be designed to receive, store and transfer an average of 350,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil initially, but throughput is expected to increase in later years to meet regional demands. This will be accomplished using new and existing facilities within the Port. Specifically, a new ship-unloading berth (Berth 408 of Pier 400) will be designed and built by the Port. It will be capable of receiving vessels as large as 325,000 dead weight tons (DWT).
The facility to be built by the Port will include an unloading platform, adjacent breasting dolphins, fendering systems, platform access drive and catwalks, vessel access tower, and other dock structures. Specific descriptions of offshore civil structures to be designed by the Port are not included in this document but will be described in the project Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) being developed by the Port. Other associated equipment will include meteorological and oceanographic stations, a docking system, a fire protection system, spill prevention and containment equipment and a leak protection system.
Pacific L. A. Marine Terminal LLC will design and install the berth infrastructure, including unloading arms, a 42-inch offload pipeline, onshore offload/storage tanks, electric-shore-side-cargo-assist offloading pumps, and various utility and support systems required for terminal operations.
Figure 1
A new 42-inch diameter below ground transfer pipeline will connect the berth infrastructure to two new petroleum storage tank farm sites located on Terminal Island (Figure 1). An existing pipeline distribution system consisting of two buried pipelines will connect the proposed two tank farms on Terminal Island. All new pipelines will be constructed on Port property.
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