Aura Engineering completed the design and coordinated the construction effort of a 120,000 bpd crude oil midstream terminal and booster pump station on a green field site near Three Rivers, Texas. The facility consists of four (4) unloading LACT units covered by a canopy,  inbound and outbound metering skids, product booster pumps and mainline facility outbound pumps.  The two (2) 1500HP mainline pumps transport up to 120,000 bbl of product per day down a pipeline. The facility includes two (2) 150,000 bbl and (2) 50,000 bbl above ground internal floating roof storage tanks. Aura also assisted our client with the [...]

Additive injection systems are a very common piece of equipment at refined fuel loading terminals. Every fuel company, from Exxon to Chevron to Shell to Valero, has their own special additive for motor gasoline or diesel. Some are cleaning agents while others are high performance additives to help our vehicles operate at peak performance. Aura Engineering has designed several truck loading facilities that have incorporated an additive injection system at the loading rack. We were recently presented with a challenge by one of our customers to develop a mobile additive injection system. This customer is currently operating in a temporary [...]

One of Aura’s main competencies is the design of railcar loading facilities. We recently wrapped up such a facility for a client in Ohio. We designed a sixteen (16) spot loading rack for propane, butane, and natural gasoline. The loading facility is designed to load railcars simultaneously while accurately measuring the loading rate to each individual railcar with a dedicated meter run. Each meter run is set up as a standard Lease Automated Custody Transfer (LACT) meter run. The LACT unit consists of a strainer, flow meter, pressure transmitter, RTD, double block and bleed valve with a prover connection [...]