Magellan Midstream Partners is building a US$250 million condensate splitter and infrastructure at its terminal in Corpus Christi, Tx. The splitter is part of a project to build more than 1 million barrels of storage, dock improvements and two additional truck bays. The work also will include pipelines connecting the terminal with Trafigura AG’s nearby facility.

Rail operator Norfolk Southern has opened a new bulk transfer terminal in Chesapeake, Va. NS’s ‘Thoroughbred Bulk Transfer’ (TBT) terminals are specialised facilities that allow customers to transfer a large array of commodities between rail cars and trucks.

Flint Hills Resources has reached an agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice that provides for the installation of state-of-the-art emissions reductions technology and other enhancements at the company’s Port Arthur chemical plant.

US Development Group wants to build an US$80 million oil terminal at Port of Grays Harbor, Wash., that together would bring crude oil by rail from the Bakken region.

Vopak has bought Canterm Canadian Terminals Inc which owns two refined product terminals in Montreal and Quebec City. With the acquisition, Vopak Canada’s storage capacity increases by more than 500,000 cbm to 712,000 cbm, while strengthening the Dutch company’s presence in all strategic distribution markets in eastern Canada.