Happy Wednesday!
We have been
trying to keep up with offshore terminal industry, and where they are going to
be located around the US (See our Blog on other Deepwater Seaports projects
including details on Texas GulfLink, February 2025). Well,
we have an update on one planned off the coast of Texas, and it wasn’t good
news.
Did anyone
happen to read the Oil & Gas Journal’s OGJ Daily Update Newsletter on
August 17, 2026, their article titled, “Federal court voids Texas GulfLink license
over agency’s ‘serious procedural errors’”? The article goes on to speak on how a lawsuit
from an environmental group caused a US Maritime Administration (MARAD) terminal
deepwater port license for Sentinel Midstream LLC’s Texas GulfLink to be vacated
by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last week. The Appellate court found MARAD didn’t take
into consideration the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 which says in a nutshell pipelines
cannot intersect or overlay, and unfortunately Enterprise Product Partners’ Sea
Port Oil Terminal (SPOT) and Sentinel Midstream LLC’S Texas GulfLink proposed
pipelines overlap. The vacated MARAD
license has caused the license to be voided, nonetheless MARAD will have to
take another look at the application and allow Sentinel Midstream a chance to
correct the issues. We wish Sentinel Midstream
luck resolving their issues! If you
would like to read more of the Oil & Gas Journal’s article, please
click the link: Federal
court voids Texas GulfLink over agency’s ‘serious procedural errors’ | Oil
& Gas Journal.
Our team has
experience in developing hydrocarbon storage facilities as well as helping you
transport your hydrocarbons, so if you too would like to get a project going,
we’re here to help! Don’t forget to
check out our ESC website or
contact us via the email in the Blog!
We hope you have a wonderful evening and a productive week! Keep cool!
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