Stephanie Hughes and Tony Landry sort out a crane at the Hovensa Cocker Dock.
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Misener Marine builds Hovensa Coker Dock
at St. Croix
At St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, Misener crews are building a dock structure at the Hovensa Oil Refinery. The dock will support a Krupp ship loader capable of loading coke into Panamex vessels holding from 30,000 to 65,000 dry-weight tons.
Brent Hughes and Darren Harlan review the setup for the static load test.
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Coke is one of the by-products from crude oil refining, and is shipped from the Hovensa Oil Refinery to Europe.
Although the $800 million design/build project was initially delayed, it is currently on schedule and proceeding well.
Because the project is half on land, and half in water, third-party environmental-enforcement agencies are watching it closely.
Keith Haven sorts out testing cable prior to driving pile.
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Arnold Ridge directs concrete into forms at mooring dolphin #1.
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According to project manager Brent Hughes, "Working within the refinery is restrictive and regimented, but due to cooperation and good communication, we have a relationship that works."
Tommy Massie operates an American 9320 piling crane.
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The project includes constructing a radial dock structure, a pivot pedestal, four mooring dolphins, and two breasting dolphins (where ships tie up to load the coke). Crews are driving 115 piles, ranging from 18-42 inches in diameter, and 130-feet long. The dock structure consists of cast-in-place bent caps on piles, which support precast beams locked together with cast-in-place diaphragms. A rail will be grouted onto the beams as travel support for the ship loader.
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