Pipeline

Elcano Tankers Limited transports liquid petroleum products like gasoline, jet fuels, diesel fuel, blendstocks, and liquid natural gasolines from refineries and terminals to terminals and other pipelines in Europe and. We never owns the products we transport. The products are moved through the pipeline in batches via pump stations along the pipeline. The products are measured when they enter the system and when they leave the system providing a ticket for each customer of how much product was moved from point to point.

Our pipelines deliver over 12.9 billion barrels (542 billion gallons) of petroleum products each year. About 59% of the petroleum products transport by pipeline is crude oil (7.6 billion barrels) and the remainder (5.3 billion barrels) is in the form of refined petroleum products.* Crude oil is the raw material for making petroleum products. Crude oil pipelines transport crude oil from onshore and offshore production wells and from coastal shipping terminals to refineries and chemical plants. At refineries, the oil is processed into refined products such as gasoline, heating oil, diesel, and oil feed stocks. At chemical plants, the oil feed is processed into resins, plastics, chemicals and agricultural products..

Our pipeline system is monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year by qualified pipeline Controllers in our Operations Control Center. The Controller has the responsibility to manage the system operation, respond to alarms, and remotely shutdown the pipeline if an abnormal operation occurs or for any reason.