Sentinel Midstream, Freepoint align to advance deepwater port

Offshore staff

DALLAS – Sentinel Midstream LLC, through its subsidiary Texas GulfLink LLC, has aligned with Freepoint Commodities LLC in furtherance of the construction, operation, and utilization of Texas GulfLink, a deepwater crude oil export facility near Freeport, Texas.

Texas GulfLink will include an onshore oil storage terminal connected by a 42-in. pipeline to a manned offshore platform about 30 mi (48 km) off the coast of Freeport, Texas. From the platform, the oil will be transported to two single point mooring buoys to allow for VLCCs to receive 2 MMbbl of crude oil with loading rates up to 85,000 b/hr.

Sentinel Midstream President and CEO Jeff Ballard said: “…Through their Asian market focus, Freepoint will lead efforts to meet the growing demand from Asian refineries for US produced crude oil.”

Freepoint CEO David Messer said: “The Texas GulfLink project will help meet the demands our customers have to reliably source US crude oil through a neutral infrastructure export option.”

01/23/2020