Canaport
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| Country | Canada |
| Location | Saint John, New Brunswick |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 45°12′41″N 65°59′09″W / 45.211271°N 65.985952°W |
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| Opened | 1970 (crude oil terminal), 2008 (LNG terminal) |
| Owned by | Irving Oil |
| Type of harbor | deep-water crude oil receiving terminal liquified natural gas terminal |
| Available berths | 1 mono-buoy for crude oil supertankers 1 jetty for LNG tankers |
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Website Canaport (crude oil) http://irvingoil.com/operations_and_partners/operations/supply/ Canaport LNG http://www.canaportlng.com |
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Canaport is a Canadian marine crude oil receiving terminal located on the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at Mispec Point, approximately 9 km (5.6 mi) southeast of the city of Saint John, New Brunswick.
Commissioned in 1970, Canaport was the first deep-water crude terminal in the Western Hemisphere able to receive supertankers. Canaport was built by Irving Oil, which has continuously owned and operated the facility throughout its existence. The terminal is currently configured exclusively as a crude receiving terminal in order to supply the Irving Oil Refinery, which was itself constructed in 1960.
Canaport consists of the following infrastructure:
The terminal was originally designed to have 5 storage tanks measuring 200 ft (61 m) in diameter. The owner of Irving Oil, K.C. Irving modified the terminal's design to include 6 tanks so each tank could each have a single letter that when combined would spell I-R-V-I-N-G when viewed from the water. Subsequent expansions of the refinery in the 1970s, 80s and 90s resulted in the construction of additional storage tanks.
In 1976 NB Power commissioned the Coleson Cove Generating Station which is connected to Canaport by the 20 km (12 mi) Lorneville Pipeline. NB Power receives Number 6 fuel oil at Canaport where it is stored in two 1,500,000 bbl (240,000,000 l) tanks before being transported by the pipeline.
The Canaport LNG terminal is a liquified natural gas (LNG) receiving and regasification terminal located adjacent and immediately east of the Canaport crude receiving terminal. Commissioned in 2008, it is Canada's first LNG terminal and the first LNG terminal built in eastern North America in 30 years. It is capable of receiving the largest LNG tankers in the world.
Canaport LNG has a nominal capacity of handling 1,200,000,000 cu ft (34,000,000 m3) of LNG per day, enough to heat 5 million homes. Regasified LNG from the Canaport LNG terminal is capable of supplying 20% of the natural gas demand in the northeastern United States and Canada.
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