Transportation & Terminaling is comprised of Ergon’s main service subsidiaries, which provide superior service and support to third party customers in addition to Ergon operations. Ergon’s transportation subsidiaries maintain a fleet of river, road and rail transportation equipment along with numerous terminal locations. They also provide services including maintenance activities and industrial insulation.

Transportation & Terminaling

Moving and storing products is just as important to Ergon’s operations as processing the products themselves. Handling transportation and terminaling of crude and finished products provides cost savings, reliability, quality control and added flexibility. Ergon subsidiaries maintain strategically located petroleum storage terminals and a growing fleet of towboats, barges, railcars, trucks and trailers. In addition, Ergon owns and leases pipeline and gathering systems to transport, store and distribute crude oil and finished products. These subsidiaries consistently excel in environmental stewardship, safety and security throughout their operations.

Ergon Terminaling, Inc.
Ergon Terminaling and its subsidiaries own and operate strategically located storage terminals and service providers that are critical factors in Ergon’s ability to respond to market conditions and customer needs. The terminals feed raw material to Ergon’s refineries, store finished products and meet the special requirements of customers, including major oil companies. Ergon subsidiaries also build and lease customized storage terminals to tenants’ specifications. Under rigorous quality and safety controls, products are off-loaded, sampled, tested and stored until they are ready for loading into tankers, railcars, trucks, barges or fed through pipelines. Ergon’s terminals participate with the company’s Systems & Performance Improvement Department to comply with ISO 9000 standards.

Ergon Maintenance Services
Ergon Maintenance Services, a division of Ergon Terminaling, supports construction and maintenance activities for Ergon refineries and terminals, as well as external customers.

ISO Panels, Inc.
ISO Panels is an industrial contractor specializing in insulation for tanks, piping and equipment. Additional services include the distribution and fabrication of commercial and industrial insulation products.

Ergon Trucking, Inc.
Formed by consolidating several trucking entities in 1973, Ergon Trucking, Inc. has provided a flexible and responsive transportation system that assures the strategic pick-up and delivery of crude oil, asphalt, process oils, lubes, chemicals, caustics and a wide range of liquid products, serving Ergon companies as well as external customers.

Throughout the 48 contiguous states and Canada, a specialized fleet of trucks and trailers hauls liquid products that require careful handling, sensitive temperature control, critical delivery timing and crucial safety precautions. In-house maintenance facilities and a staff of experienced mechanics keep fleet resources in top operating condition. In compliance with all federal regulations, Ergon Trucking maintains an in-depth emergency response plan, backed by the expertise of Ergon’s environmental and safety engineers.

Additionally, Ergon Trucking serves Ergon’s core refining business segment for highly specialized needs. By utilizing its trucks to deliver crude from the local Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York and Ohio fields as well as to deliver asphalt and sensitive process oil products, it assures that products maintain integrity throughout transport.

Magnolia Marine Transport Company
With the largest inland waterways asphalt transportation fleet in the United States, Magnolia Marine Transport Company transports asphalt, as well as crude oil, process oils, diesel fuel and other products throughout the Mississippi River and intracoastal waterways of the Gulf of Mexico. Employing a commitment to quality since 1967, Magnolia Marine works to ensure the integrity of crude oil and finished products from the time the oil reaches U.S. shores to the time the finished product is delivered to customers.

Magnolia Marine has been expanding and optimizing its boat and barge fleet to provide quality customer service and meet strong customer demand. Keeping an eye on environmental issues, Magnolia Marine follows a systematic program when maintaining and replacing its fleet for improved efficiency and integrity, and focuses on logistical planning and coordination to enable on-time delivery to customers while providing optimum customer service.

Rail
Ergon provides a lower cost alternative to highway transportation by utilizing railcars in its long-distance ground transport operations. Some railcars are specially modified to transport asphalt and petroleum products processed at the refineries. The railcars are generally leased on multi-year leases.