Colombia's Covenas-Cartegena Crude Oil Pipeline Project Shortened, Planned Terminal Scrapped

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources Latin America (Cordoba, Argentina)--Colombian engineering firm Pacific Infrastructure (Bogota, Colombia) has shortened the planned Covenas-Cartagena crude oil pipeline by seven kilometers (km) to 128 km.

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Pacific Infrastructure had planned for a new 3 million-barrel crude oil storage terminal in Covenas as part of the pipeline project, but the owner cancelled the new terminal and opted to use an existing Ecopetrol (Bogota) storage terminal. As a result, the length of the 30-inch pipeline was shortened slightly.

The pipeline will begin at the Ecopetrol terminal and run to the city of Puerto Bahia, where a new storage terminal is under construction. A pump station that is to be built at the site will include four main Zulzer pumps with Toshiba electric motors, and four booster Zulzer pumps with WEG engines.

Concocar (Bogota) recently was selected as a general contractor for the installation of the pipe and pump station. The project will be in the site preparation phase until October. It is expected that the pipeline and pump station will start operations by July 2015.

Pacific Infrastructure is also performing feasibility studies for the pump station project at Puerto Bahia and a 12-inch pipeline that would extend 6 km to connect the system with the Cartegena Refinery.

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