The new tanks are made of stainless steel, have been heat-insulated and are thermally insulated, all with the aim of taking care of the cargoes they will store. Likewise, the facilities have a piping system that allows products to be received and shipped directly from the pier, and a new loading dock with capacity for two tank trucks has been set up, which significantly speeds up operations.

The port of Bilbao offers for the transfer of liquid bulk, materials that represent 17.7 million tons and more than 57% of the total traffic in the Biscayan port. Although the most important are oil products, LNG, chemicals, agri-food and others are also noteworthy, which can be received and shipped by rail, ship, truck and pipeline through highly specialized terminals for each product and the nine companies that have warehouses for all industrial sectors in the north of our country and in the south of France.

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The area, which was previously used for the storage of biofuels, will now have twelve new storage tanks, in addition to the existing 36 tanks in Spain. Through this new plant, the company wants to strengthen its operations in the north of the country, where it already operates with the plants in Bilbao and Gijón, while increasing its storage capacity.

It is the fifth plant that the firm incorporates. Apart from the plants in the North, the company has built plants in Motril and Ocaña, with a total capacity of almost 500,000 m³ for the storage of hydrocarbons.
The Port of Ferrol also has a lot to gain from all these changes, since the investment will strengthen the attractiveness and logistic capabilities of the enclave, while creating new employment opportunities in the A Coruña region.

Thanks to this new operation, Hafesa Group continues to maintain its strategic commitment to the regional development of the hydrocarbons sector, as well as to the diversification of energy resources.

In addition to having a new hydrocarbon plant, it is worth mentioning that the board of directors of the Ferrol-San Cibrao Port Authority has approved the extension of the Masol concession. Thus, the company will be able to integrate new facilities that optimize the production of the concessions it owns in the outer port and which is located in the biodiesel plant.

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With this expansion underway, the eighth since Decal Spain began its
activity in Huelva back in 1996, the current storage capacity will be expanded by about 75,200 cubic meters, distributed in 2 stainless tanks of 12,600 (10,000 tons) and 8 of 6,250 (5,000 tons), all able to maintain the necessary temperature of the products at between 40º and 60º C.
The new facilities will be perfectly integrated with the three berths that Decal operates and which give a great maritime operational capacity, in addition to the pipe connections with Lipsa’s oil refinery, Cepsa’s-La Rábida refinery and Gunvor-Biosur’s biodiesel production plant.
The start-up is scheduled for the beginning of 2023.

The need for infrastructures for the storage of raw materials for eco-fuels, obtained from waste such as used cooking oil or animal fats not intended for human consumption make Huelva’s Terminal an ideal option for the development of sustainability objectives at national level, specially since in 2020 Decal’s facilities became the first authorised Border Control Post, for the import of animal fats from third countries, used for the production of biofuels, granted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

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In Spain, the market depends mainly on oil from the Horeca channel: hotels, restaurants and coffee shops and the limitations and closures that affected restaurants and hotels due to the pandemic supposed a significant drop in the generation of used cooking oils in Spain forcing to look for supplies in other countries.

On the other hand, the fact that raw materials from waste count twice, when it comes to meeting the mandatory objective of incorporating biofuels in diesel and gasoline, has made used oils approach virgin soy, palm or rapeseed oils levels for the first time. In fact, used oils climbed up to first place with 36.3 percent of all raw material used to produce biodiesel.

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The commissioning of the new facilities is scheduled for 2024 and Petronor will be backed by a technological collaboration agreement between Repsol and Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, also highly interested in the production of synthetic fuels while progress is being made in the decarbonization process in the world.
The first plant, with an investment of EUR 60 mill, will be one of the largest plants in the world to produce around 10.000 ltrs/day of synthetic hydrogen, using water and CO2 captured from the refinery as raw materials, while the energy needed in the process will come from Repsol’s own wind and solar generation, giving a production capacity of 50 barrels/day of synthetic fuel.

On the other hand, Petronor launched a fuel with just 0.5% sulphur content and includes this new product in its already wide offer on the international market, in accordance with the most demanding environmental standards.
By manufacturing this new type of low sulphur fuel, Petronor adapts its production to the requirements of the International Maritime Organization, which establishes that the fuel to be burned by ships would have to go from a sulphur concentration of 3.5% to 0.5%, apart from ships that have specific treatment plants to clean combustion gases. However, the use of these purification systems, known in the sector as “scrubbers”, is still very minor in maritime traffic world, therefore the manufacture of fuels with just 0.5% sulphur represents one of the most important changes in the refining sector.

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