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Diesel Transloading – Park City, Montana

Recently, Aura Engineering collaborated with Kinley Construction to complete a greenfield diesel transloading project located approximately one mile west of Park City, Montana. The client contracted Kinley to design and construct a turnkey transloading facility for diesel products that are transferred between railcars and over the road tanker trucks.  While Kinley took care of construction, Aura provided the engineering design for the terminal facility including mechanical, structural, electrical, and controls engineering. Aura worked closely with Kinley to ensure the engineering design was constructed and commissioned to function as designed. As Aura and Kinley have been frequent collaborators over the past [...]

Project Spotlight: Storage Terminal Phase Three Engineering in Texas

After successfully completing Phase One and Phase Two Facility Engineering for a client in Brownsville, Texas, Aura recently completed Phase Three facility engineering and terminal start up. Our team worked closely with our partners to develop the site and complete civil, drainage, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering for the terminal.

Hurricane Preparedness and Recovery for Terminal and Transfer Facilities

As the destruction and disruption caused by Hurricane Ida sadly illustrate, hurricanes can put a major hurt on the oil and petroleum facilities located along the coast. As Aura Engineering works to help our neighbors and clients in Louisiana recover from the devastation, a discussion about how to prepare for major storms and recover quickly and efficiently afterward doesn’t get much timelier than right now.  Ida is only the latest disaster to disrupt the petroleum and petrochemical industries of late. The COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented freezing weather across the U.S., pipeline cancellations, and unprecedented shipping delays in just the last couple [...]

What to Do Before Your Operational Review

This August, we’ve got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is, if your marine vapor control system (MVCS)  was commissioned between August 15, 2011 and August 15, 2016, then your system must undergo an operational review (OR) before the five-year anniversary of your initial certification date. That means if your system was commissioned in August 2016, you’re running out of time!  The good news, of course, is that Aura Engineering can make your operational review a simple and painless process. Often, we hear from clients who know their facility needs an operational review and are also [...]

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