The cold weather hasn't effected the installation of the new tank farm plumbing in Williams. Well maybe a little. Frequent warming breaks to thaw out digits and prevent frost bite from setting in has slowed them down a bit but they continue to work away. In fact, there have only been a handful of days they haven't work through this never ending cold spell.
In this photo, you can see the 6" truck fill header piped to the double pump system. The double pump configuration will allow us to load a truck and a rail car with the same product at the same time without sacrificing flow rates. We've calculated it to load rail at 700 gpm and trucks at 500gpm. The 6" plumbing on the discharge side of the pump will connect to the valve matrix you see in the photo below.
All of the products in the containment will run through this contraption to get to one of 5 loading destinations; south rail, north rail, truck bay 1, truck bay 2, or mixer. The engineers have coined it the "valve matrix" which sounds pretty cool so I'll stick with it.
If it's original intended purpose doesn't work out we can always market it as the worlds most elaborate potato gun. That's not even funny........it has to work. I mean it
will work.
In this photo you see the single pump system. This is set up for some of the products that don't require high loading volumes. As you can see, some of the tanks are missing. Once the plumbing is 100% complete, we'll move the remaining tanks. We have a strict completion deadline of March 1 for the new load out system. The weather isn't helping but no excuses will be acceptable when we're looking at shipping record numbers in April.
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