One of Limetree Bay's entrances By. ERNICE GILBERT/VICONSORTIUM
ST. CROIX ¸— Limetree Bay Refining, LLC said late Tuesday that it will be conducting audible testing of its site-wide notification system this week. The testing will take place on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. and will continue periodically throughout the day. The alarm will utilize an audible tone that will be preceded and followed by “this is a test”, the refinery said.
Limetree Bay said beginning March 4 it will conduct weekly testing of its notification system. The warning system will sound every Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. The public address will be a chime followed by the words “This is the weekly test of the site notification system,” said Limetree Bay.
The refinery said it will be capable of processing roughly 200,00 barrels of oil daily when it restarts this year. Previously, the refinery said it would start some refining by the end of last year. It said key restart work at the site began in 2018, including the 62,000 barrels per day modern, delayed coker unit, extensive desulfurization capacity, and a reformer unit to produce clean, low-sulfur transportation fuels that will meet International Marine Organization (“IMO”) standards required under international law in 2020.
Limetree Bay Terminals, LLC described itself as a world-class energy logistics hub centrally located in the Caribbean facilitating the storage, segregation, blending, and global movement of crude oils, fuel oils, bunker, gasolines, diesel, jet fuel, and liquid petroleum gases. Customers include integrated global oil majors, refiners, global trading houses, and the co-located refinery. The facility consists of 167 tanks, with a capacity of approximately 34 million barrels, and deepwater access to 11 docks including an offshore single point mooring (SPM) buoy capable of loading and discharging vessels up to VLCC size.
