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 [...]
Spotlight on Aura’s Turnkey Terminal Expansion Project in Texas
We recently completed a turnkey storage-facility expansion project through from beginning to end, providing everything our client needed.
Get Marine Vapor Control System Training from the Experts
Are your marine vapor control personnel due for system training? If they aren’t, chances are good that they soon will be. Facilities with marine vapor control systems (MVCS) must provide training under U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) regulations: Section 33 CFR 154.2030 for transfer/loading facilities and Section 33 CFR 154.2031 for barge cleaning facilities. Failure to provide regular training is not only unsafe, it can also result in significant USCG penalties. Fortunately, Aura Engineering makes marine vapor control system training simple and easy. Often, we can even use it as an opportunity to save your facility money! MVCS training is required [...]