Recent News - 2008-2009

July 21, 2009 ABC 20/20 "Over a Barrel: The Truth About Oil" Charlie Gibson Uncovers Little Known Secrets of Oil Industry in Primetime Special. Highlights Cushing, OK. Enbridge. See Cushing Profile

June, 2009—Sunoco Logistics awards a purchase order to Ridge & Associates, Inc. for the design of a biodiesel blending system at the Exton, PA terminal of Sunoco. Included are new vertical tanks, blending units, pumps, piping, and an electrical control system.

May, 2009—BP awards a work release to Ridge & Associates, Inc. for the preparation of a cost estimate for biodiesel blending at BP's Dubuque, IA terminal.

May, 2009—Ridge & Associates, Inc. is awarded a work release for the design of biodiesel blending at BP's Chicago, IL terminal. Included are new tanks, piping, blending units, pumps, and a building.

April, 2009—TEPPCO awards change orders to Ridge & Associates, Inc. for the addition of biodiesel blending and a barge hose handling assembly to a proposed terminal currently under design in Tennessee.

April, 2009—Warren Distribution Company of Omaha, NE awards a contract to Ridge & Associates, Inc. for the design of an expansion to an existing lube oil blending plant in Glen Dale, WV.

March, 2009—Plains Marketing, LP awards a PO to Ridge & Associates to provide consulting services for their recently-constructed terminal in Patoka, IL, including site visits, structural analysis, and feasibility analysis of proposed modifications.

February, 2009—Ridge & Associates, Inc. is given a work release to prepare engineering drawings for modifications to the loading rack ethanol blending system at BP's Nashville, TN terminal.

October, 2008—Marathon Petroleum Company awards purchase orders to Ridge & Associates, Inc. for the design of additive injection installations for MPC terminals in Covington, KY; Louisville, KY; and Bay City, MI.

October, 2008—Ridge & Associates, Inc. is named 2008 Professional of the Year by Greater Findlay, Inc., the Hancock County Area Chamber of Commerce organization.

September, 2008—Enbridge Energy awards a purchase order to Ridge & Associates, Inc. for the ongoing development of a Base Map for Enbridge's Cushing, OK terminal, one of the largest tank farms in the USA.

September, 2008—IPA Operations, Inc. awards a contract to Ridge & Associates, Inc. for the design of a fuel oil loading skid for their Troy Energy LLC facility near Luckey, OH.

September, 2008—Ridge & Associates, Inc. is awarded purchase orders by BP Pipelines North America to design ethanol denaturing projects at BP's terminals in Port Everglades and Jacksonville, FL.

August, 2008—BP Oil North America asks Ridge & Associates, Inc. to visit fifteen (15) BP bulk plants in Ohio to investigate and establish safe floor loading limits for bulk plant warehouse buildings.

August, 2008—TEPPCO agrees to award a work order to Ridge & Associates, Inc. to design a new grass-roots terminal in Clarksville, TN on the Cumberland River.  The terminal will include a barge unloading dock, storage tanks, and truck loading rack.

August, 2008—Personnel from Ridge & Associates, Inc. attend the Grand Opening of the TEPPCO Barge and Truck Loading Terminal in Boligee, AL. This is a new grass-roots terminal on the Tenn-Tom Waterway, designed by Ridge & Associates, Inc. in 2006/2007.

August, 2008—Ridge & Associates, Inc. is awarded a purchase order by BP Pipeline to prepare basic engineering and cost estimates for a pipeline product sampling system at the River Rouge, MI terminal. 

June, 2008—Murphy Energy contracts with Ridge & Associates, Inc. to prepare a conceptual layout and cost estimate for a facility to receive NGL from trucks, store it, and inject it into an existing NGL pipeline.  The facility will be located near Oklahoma City, OK. 

June, 2008—Ridge & Associates, Inc. is awarded a contract by Seminole Gas and Murphy Energy to design a facility in Tennessee to receive NGL by pipeline and truck; store NGL and Propane in tanks; load NGL into tank cars; receive Propane from tank cars; and load Propane into trucks.