While it’s not a new idea, West Indies Petroleum USVI Limited, LLC told the V.I. Economic Development Commission Tuesday it hopes to start refueling ships, or bunkering, from the St. Croix refinery transporting fuel to St. Thomas where hundreds of cruise ships dock every month.
The residents of St. Croix are living with a ticking time-bomb: The idled plant on St. Croix, formerly known as the Limetree Bay refinery, experienced a series of accidents over the course of last year that spewed noxious fumes and showered oil droplets onto nearby homes, sending some residents to emergency rooms. Now deteriorating conditions at the massive facility, which was
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Limetree Bay Ventures Commences Refinery Startup Operations
February 1, 2021 GMT
ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 1, 2021
Limetree Bay Ventures, LLC (“Limetree” or “the Company”), a world-class refinery, terminal and logistics hub controlled by EIG Global Energy Partners (“EIG”), today announced that Limetree Bay Refining (“the Refinery”) has successfully resumed operations and begun production and commercial sales of refined products.
The Refinery is capable of processing over 200,000 barrels of crude oil and other feedstocks per day and will help transition the maritime fuel sector toward new international standards. Further, it is well situated to process the growing supply of Latin American sour crudes to fulfill consumer demand in growing end markets in the Caribbean, Central and South America, and the US East Coast. With the completion of the ref