GCAC/Air Products, Inc. Methanol Terminal Mobile, Alabama Client Challenge: In anticipation of increased product demand in southern region, client sought to expand raw material receipt and storage systems, but lacked on-site space and dock capacity.    PRIME Solution: Prime provided engineering concept, evaluation, and design services for the design/construct/finance project team responsible for delivering a new methanol storage facility located 60 miles from the client’s plant.  A new tank farm was constructed with two 150,000 BBL storage tanks, a 2,000 ft supply pipeline, and expanded dock off-loading systems at a neighboring facility’s dock.  Around the clock trucking operation has been proven cost effective to deliver methanol to the client’s plant. Prime Engineering provided Design-Build services for a 250,000 BBL methanol marine receipt, storage, and truck distribution terminal.  Services included evaluation, planning, budgeting, and design for a Design / Build / Operate / Finance team of investors.  Our cost-effective solution was to identify an existing deep-water dock at a Mobile asphalt plant and develop the adjacent unused property for a new methanol truck-loading terminal connected to the dock by a product receipt pipeline.  The facility operates 24 / 7, supplying a continuous stream of tanker trucks making the round trip to Pace.  After evaluation of the terminal, Prime was again selected to provide engineering services including fire protection, civil/site grading and drainage, controls, utilities, structural and electrical. Project scope included: Two (2) 150,000 BBL above-ground bulk methanol storage tanks Truck vapor combustion system Two (2) bay 1,200 gpm tanker truck loading rack and canopy 12,000 BPH marine vessel dock unloading station 10” diameter marine loading  /unloading arm Fire boat dock connection systems Channel dredging and dock modifications to support 45,000 metric ton, 40-ft draft marine vessels 1,200 lf of 16” buried product dock main through existing facility 2,100 lf of 16” above grade product dock main to the new facility 1,200 lf of 12”  buried spare product piping 3,300 lf of 12” fire water piping from dock to the facility 250 ft. multi-pipe bridge across State Hwy Semi-fixed Aqueous Film Forming Foam fire suppression system 2,500 GPM fire system diesel booster pump and facility loop Integrated PLC-based loading rack control and inventory management system with internet monitoring 800sf control and office building Earthen fill for site flood control and containment dikes Stormwater containment, management, sampling, and monitoring systems Pre-cast concrete pile and cap foundations for bulk tanks Cathodic protection systems 40,000sf asphalt entry and exit roadways & DOT curb cuts Roll over thumbnail to view picture