World Oil Tank Installation Project

Project Specifications

Client: Port of Long Beach

Location: Los Angeles County

Services: Environmental Review & Permitting, Air Quality & Climate Services

Ribost Terminal LLC, DBA World Oil Terminals (World Oil) proposes to construct and operate two new 25,000-barrel internal floating roof petroleum storage tanks within the existing World Oil Terminal within the Northeast Harbor Planning District (District 2) at the Port of Long Beach. Construction of the two new tanks to be situated at the northwest corner of the existing terminal would include new tank foundations and pipeline connections to existing facility infrastructure, such as the truck loading racks. The proposed Project would provide additional storage capacity to increase the efficiency of terminal operations with no increase in throughput, due to limitations associated with the physical geometry of the site, physical limitations of the existing pipelines and truck loading racks, and permitted throughput limits. The new tanks would supplant the terminal’s existing tanks that provide crude oil storage to the World Oil Refinery in South Gate. The existing tanks would then be removed from dedicated refinery service and become available for lease to third-party customers.

Aspen prepared an Initial Study/Negative Declaration (Draft 10/2020, Final 10/2021); however, due to public controversy, the Applicant decided to move forward with completing an EIR. Aspen then prepared an Initial Study/Notice of Preparation (1/2023) and EIR, which focuses on Air Quality and Health Risk, Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Global Climate Change), Hazards and Hazardous Materials, and Hydrology and Water Quality, Sea-Level Rise.