Here is a cut and paste update from SEMPRA ENERGY who establishes needed tank farms at ports and terminals and who is a large importer (not the only one) of foreign refined fuel to the country.
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Sempra Energy’s subsidiary IEnova recently was awarded a 20-year contract by the Topolobampo Port Administration to build and operate an estimated $150 million receipt, storage and send-out liquid fuels marine terminal in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico.
The first phase of the new liquid fuels terminal will have a storage capacity of 1 million barrels of fuel, including gasoline and diesel. Operations are expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Topolobampo is the fifth liquid fuels terminal project to be announced by IEnova and continues to add to the company’s dominant position in this key market. IEnova also recently announced an expansion of its liquid fuels terminal in Veracruz and redistribution of capacity at terminals in Mexico City and Puebla, bringing IEnova’s expected terminal storage capacity to over 5 million barrels.
These marine storage terminals add to IEnova’s rapidly growing energy infrastructure portfolio and will provide a place for international refiners to store their products as Mexico works to build its inventories of gasoline and other refined products.