ExxonMobil plans to dismantle Point Tupper fractionation plant

ExxonMobil Canada has filed a plan to dismantle the Sable Offshore Energy Project’s Point Tupper fractionation plant with the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board.

The plant consists of seven aboveground pressurised storage tanks, fractionation and process vessels, process piping and flare system, railcar and truck loading facilities and surface water runoff containment facilities.

The plan proposes that deinventorying and preparing for demolition would take place next year, with demolition, material disposal and recycling to occur in 2020. It calls for all aboveground infrastructure to be removed. Below-ground infrastructure, such as septic tanks, will also be removed, with the exception of water wells, which will be abandoned below ground.

The fractional plant is located on land that is leased from NuStar, which operates a transhipment facility in Point Tupper. There, natural gas liquids are refined into propane, butane and liquid condensate. Those products are loaded onto rail cars, trucks or vessels at the fractionation plant and shipped to market.

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18th July 2018