Canaport

Canaport is a Canadian marine crude oil receiving terminal located on the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at Mispec Point, approximately 9km southeast of the city of Saint John, New Brunswick.Commissioned in 1970, Canaport was the first deep-water crude terminal in the Western Hemisphere able to receive supertankers. Canaport was built by Irving Oil, which has continuously owned and operated the facility throughout its existence. The terminal is currently configured exclusively as a crude receiving terminal in order to supply the Irving Oil Refinery, which was itself constructed in 1960.Crude terminal infrastructureCanaport consists of the following infrastructure: A floating mono-buoy located approximately 0.63nmi southwest of Mispec Point to which tankers attach onto and swing freely 360° with the tide. An undersea pipeline (0.63nmi in length) that transfers crude oil from the mono-buoy to the shore. Tanks on shore with over 6000000oilbbl of storage capacity. A land pipeline (8km in length) that transfers crude oil from the storage tanks to the refinery in the east end of Saint John. The terminal was originally designed to have 5 storage tanks measuring 200ft in diameter. The owner of Irving Oil, K.C. Irving modified the terminal's design to include 6 tanks so each tank could each have a single letter that when combined would spell I-R-V-I-N-G when viewed from the water. Subsequent expansions of the refinery in the 1970s, 80s and 90s resulted in the construction of additional storage tanks.