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Nova Scotia Power Point Tupper site looking east from the water.1997
Point Tupper Industries
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NOVA SCOTIA POWER INC. Emera IncorporatedNova Scotia Power Inc., with its parent company Emera Inc., is a diversified regional energy and services company operating in North Eastern North America. NSP Inc. has five generating facilities in Nova Scotia, one of which is located in Point Tupper on the Strait of Canso. When the generating station in Point Tupper was completed in 1970, it had a 230 megawatt thermal generating station for a heavy water plant as well as power to the provincial grid. Nova Scotia Power in Point Tupper employs 65-70 workers.
The Point Tupper facility currently generates 160 MW per day on average depending on demand throughout the province. 20% of the power is used by industry, 35% is used by business and commerce and 45% is used in homes.
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Gulf Oil Refinery dock1975
Point Tupper, Richmond County, Nova Scotia, Canada
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BRITISH AMERICAN OIL REFINERY - The Strait of Canso ice-free, deep water harbour was becoming known as North America's best location capable of accommodating the largest supertankers. By 1969, British American Oil Company began construction of a refinery and the federal government built a deep-water marine terminal capable of handling supertankers requiring 100 feet of water.Gulf Oil mothballed the operation by 1981 due to outside economic forces and the oil embargo.
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Statia Terminals Canada Partnership facility on the Strait of Canso, Nova Scotia, Canada1998
Strait of Canso, Nova Scotia, Canada
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STATIA TERMINALS CANADA PARTNERSHIP - In 1992, Statia Terminals Canada Partnreships spent 100 million dollars to refurbish and reactivate the former Gulf Oil Refinery site in Point Tupper. The facility has a total storage capacity of more than 7.5 million barrels (1.2 million cubic meters) with half designated for the storage of crude and the other half for gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, residual fuel oil and other products. Statia also owns a 55,000 barrel butane sphere that can store butane.The ice-free marine terminal is capable of handling very large crude carriers of up to 400,000 dwt.
In 2003, Statia-Kaneb employed approximately 78 people at the Point Tupper facility.
www.statiaterminals.com
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View of Statia Terminals Canada Partnerships2000
Point Tupper Industries
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Statia Terminals Group N.V. is one of the largest marine terminaling companies in the world with approximately 18.8 million barrels of storage capacity. In 2002, it was acquired by Kaneb Pipeline Partners(NYSE:KPP) who are major transporters of refined petroleum products in the American Midwest and is the third largest independent liquids terminal operator in the United States. Their worldwide operations include 68 facilities in 26 states and the United Kingdom.The loads out rates at the Point Tupper facility on the Strait of Canso are among the fastest in the industry. They have upgraded their second berth to accommodate larger vessels due to an increase in vessel traffic.
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Statia Terminals Canada Partnerships is located in deep water, ice free Strait of Canso since 1992.2000
Point Tupper Industries
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EXXON MOBIL FRACTIONATION PLANTExxon Mobil is located on a 72-acre site approximately five kilometers from Port Hawkesbury on the Strait of Canso.
Natural gas liquids are transported to the fractionation plant via a 58 kilometer long buried pipeline. The plant processes approximately 7,000 barrels of propane, 3,000 barrels of butane and 10,000 barrels of condensate every day. The Sable Offshore Energy Project, Nova Scotia's first offshore enterprise and currently the only project in the province which is producing natural gas, is incorporated with the fractionation plant. The Sable gas comes ashore in Goldboro, Guysborough County is processed and sent through a Maritimes and NorthEast Pipelines transmission line to markets, as well as through the lateral to Point Tupper. A second pipeline from Goldboro plant, also running underneath the Strait of Cansp, carries the liquid, or wet gases, to the fractionation plant in Point Tupper – they are either stored or shipped out to market.
www.exxonmobil.com
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Cape Porcupine quarry on the Strait of Canso looking west1999
Auld's Cove, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada
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MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS CANADA LIMITED is located in Auld's Cove, Nova Scotia which is on the mainland side of the Strait of Canso. It is a 500 acre quarry and multistage crushing, screening and washing plant. The adjacent Canso Causeway is, in fact, the reason there is a quarry there. It was started as the primary source of materials for the construction of the Canso Causeway between 1952 and 1955.Following completion of the Causeway, the quarry lay dormant until 1978 when it was purchased by Nova Construction Limited of Antigonish. The quarry was purchased by Lone Star Industries, Greenwich, Connecticut in June 1986 who operated the quarry until October of 1995 when Martin Marietta Materials Limited of Raleigh, North Carolina, USA acquired ownership.
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Bernhard Oldendorff27 November 2002
Cape Porcupine, Auld's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada
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BULK CARRIERS AND BARGES - Crushed stone is transported to U.S. and Caribbean markets by Panamax and cape-style class ships capable of carrying 60,000 to 70,000 tonne loads. Approximately 90% of the product produced at the quarry is shipped via ocean going barges or self-loading bulk carrier vessels.The deep tidewater of the Strait of Canso provides an excellent, ice free, saltwater harbour that makes it possible to ship aggregates economically to relatively distant offshore destinations .Crushing operations are discontinued during the winter months but shipping activity is carried out on a year round basis.
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