Cianbro to ship modules June 12
Crews to look for ideal afternoon tides
June 6, 2009
Another locally built
refinery module, the fifth of 53 ordered from Cianbro’s Eastern
Manufacturing Facility, is poised to be loaded onto a seagoing barge for
its 2,300-mile voyage down the Eastern Seaboard to the Gulf of Mexico.
“They’ll start loading on Monday,” Alan Grover, Cianbro spokesman,
said Friday.
The fifth module, which is about four stories tall, was moved to the
mouth of the bulkhead on Thursday and is visible from the Hampden side
of the Penobscot River.
The first four modules left Brewer for their new home at the Motiva
Port Arthur Refinery in late March and arrived 26 days later at the
refinery’s bulkhead in Port Arthur, Texas.
The second set of four to six modules — heavy-duty industrial steel
frames filled with pipes, pumps and electronics — is scheduled to leave
Brewer aboard the Columbia Boston barge, guided by the tugboat Emma
Foss, on June 12.
“Tides will be ideal around the early afternoon” next Friday for the
sendoff, Grover said.
The modules, which can be as large as six stories tall and 700 tons,
are too big to travel by roads or rail. After delivering the first load
of modules, the barge and tugboat returned to Maine with two
80,000-pound temperature-controlling pressure vessels that will be
installed in future modules now under construction.
Pittsfield-based Cianbro Corp. was hired by Motiva Enterprises LLC to
build 53 refinery modules, which will be sent out to Texas over the next
year. Cianbro set up its Eastern Manufacturing Facility along the
Penobscot River in Brewer, at the site of the old Eastern Fine paper
mill, to build the modules. The company now employs about 400 skilled
laborers in Brewer and another 70 or so at a pipe-making plant in
Bangor.
A copyright story from
the Bangor Daily News, June 6, 2009 by Nok-Noi Ricker.
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