PROJECT
Pipeline storage facility expansion

CLIENT
Plains Marketing & Transportation

LOCATION
Cushing, Oklahoma

SYNOPSIS
The Plains pipeline storage facility expansion project added four 250,000-barrel tanks, two motor control centers, and various motor-operated valves and tank mixers to the existing Plains facility, giving it significantly increased capacity and capability. Ridge & Associates engineered the tanks and also designed the new control and mixing systems.

Additionally, Ridge & Associated performed the design work necessary to

  • tie the new tanks into the existing SCADA System for monitoring tank temparatures and levels, and
  • link the new motor-operated valves and tank mixers to the exising Rotork Data Highway System.

PERSONNEL
Larry Hoover, P.E.; Milan Cramer; and Stan Brown worked on this project.