The fleet and the distribution network enable Atlas Oil to provide customers with 24/7 service every day of the year. In addition to Atlas Oil bulk plants in Michigan and Ohio, the fleet hauls product from a number of petroleum terminals throughout the company's marketing area. Four-compartment Heil petroleum trailers have a 9,500-gallon capacity. About a third of the tractor fleet was specified with Allison six-speed automatic transmissions. All of the tractors and most of the trucks are Kenworth T800s with 425-horsepower Cummins ISX engines and Dana drive axles. The company runs a fleet of approximately 100 petroleum transports and tankwagons operating primarily in the Midwest. We have to be able to buy and distribute product through multiple channels.” View larger image “To continue growing, we realize that we must do everything we can to optimize our marketing and distribution capabilities. To that end, we opened a fuels supply and trading office in Houston (Texas) in 2007 and built our first transload facility (Albuquerque) in 2009. We have worked aggressively to grow and diversify our core fuels focus.
Other services include fleet fueling and remote storage tank monitoring. “We're also a distributor of BlueDEF diesel exhaust fluid.
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“We handle a full range of refined fuels, with the exception of jet fuel,” Kenyon says.
Customers include nearly 400 convenience stores. Established in 1985 by Simon, the company serves businesses, municipalities, and government agencies in 23 states. These are first-class facilities that have all necessary product containment capabilities and are fully secured.” Broad portfolioįor Atlas Oil, the transload capability is the latest addition to the company's broad portfolio of fuel trading, marketing, distribution, and logistics services. “Atlas Oil has invested technology that allows the transload system to operate much like a loading rack at a terminal. Demand for US-produced crude oil is growing, and we see some real opportunities for Atlas Oil. “We're looking at transload markets that are underserved, and there is a strong likelihood that the facilities we add over the next year or so will be located in or near oilfield areas. We want to add a fourth location in early 2012 and possibly another later during the summer. “We also have plans to grow beyond the current three locations. “We're building our transloading capabilities for the longterm,” says Bob Kenyon, executive vice-president of sales and business development at Atlas Oil. All three transload sites have room to grow. While the acreage is less at the other two sites, the Albuquerque location has 10 carspots, and the La Feria facility has 17 carspots. The Odessa location occupies five of 10 available acres and has 14 carspots. The other two are in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and La Feria, Texas, and currently are used for transloading ethanol and biodiesel. It is the third transloading facility owned and operated by the company. “We are always looking for ways to add value for our customers, and this is a prime example of how you can take a customer need and put some fresh thinking and ingenuity into the process to come up with a great solution.” Multi-function facilityĪtlas Oil's Odessa transloading site is a multi-function facility than was designed to handle renewable fuels including ethanol and biodiesel in addition to crude oil. “This is an extremely exciting new business opportunity for Atlas,” says Sam Simon, chief executive officer and owner of Atlas Oil Company. Crude oil transload volumes at the facility started at 30,000 barrels amonth and are expected to more than triple at full capacity. The Taylor, Michigan-based fuel supply and distribution specialist opened its first crude oil transload facility in July in Odessa, Texas. Rail shipments of crude oil have increased steadily since 2008, and truck-to-rail transloading is becoming a critical component of the rail process.Ītlas Oil Company is one ofthe companies that embraced the growing crude oil transload opportunity. Getting that sweet crude to the refineries can be a challenge due to pipeline infrastructure and capacity limitations. This low-density, low-sulfur crude oil is a preferred feedstock for many of the refineries along the Gulf Coast and in the Midwest.
VIEWED in a bucket, sweet crude oil from the Permian Basin region of West Texas looks a lot like diesel fuel.