ACBL Orinoco Terminal Development

Client ACBL de Venezuela Calle El Callao, Torre Lloyd 3C Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela and Han-Padron Associates, LLP Eleven Penn Plaza New York, New York 10001 Completion Date November, 1996

Project Description
Energy Associates was engaged to assist Han-Padron Associates on ACBL's Orinoco Terminal Development. This terminal will be a bulk commodity export facility on the Orinoco River in Venezuela. Commodities will be delivered to the terminal via truck, rail, conveyor, and barge. The terminal will store commodities to accumulate shipload consignments and balance seasonal fluctuations. Ships will be loaded using high capacity modern equipment. Principal products will include HBI (Hot Briquetted Iron) briquettes, bauxite, copper ore concentrates, and slag.

As part of this project development work, Energy Associates completed the initial conceptual and preliminary engineering work. Assignments included facility layout, capital cost estimates, Master Plan, 3-D CAD model of the facility and 2-D renderings, and a preliminary environmental assessment. The HBI briquettes are a high quality product for the steel industry. They are, however, relatively fragile and degradation is a concern. To mitigate the degradation problems experienced by other facilities, Energy Associates is developing a unique softload shiploader that will gently discharge HBI briquettes into ocean going vessels.

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