Transportation & Terminaling is comprised of Ergon’s main service subsidiaries, which provide superior service and support to many other Ergon operations and “for hire”. Ergon’s transportation subsidiaries maintain a fleet of river, road, and rail transportation equipment along with numerous terminal locations, and provide services including maintenance activities, and tank insulation.

Transportation & Terminaling

Moving and storing products are 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, trailers, and bobtail trucks. In addition, Ergon owns and leases pipeline and gathering systems to transport, store, and distribute crude oil and finished products.

Ergon Terminaling, Inc.
Ergon Terminaling, Inc. (“Ergon Terminaling”) and its subsidiaries own and operate strategically located storage terminals and service providers that are a critical factor in Ergon’s ability to be responsive 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, supplying the Southeast, as well as the high-demand regions of the Midwest and East Coast. Ergon’s terminals participate with the Company’s Quality Systems Department to comply with ISO 9000 standards.

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., provides material and services for commercial and industrial pipe and storage tank insulation.

Ergon Trucking, Inc.
From the beginning and after consolidating several trucking entities in 1963, Ergon Trucking, Inc. (“Ergon Trucking”) 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 and dry-bulk products, serving Ergon companies as well as external customers.

Throughout the 48 contiguous states and Canada, a specialized fleet of trucks and trailers haul 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.

With safety as a top priority, Ergon Trucking provides its drivers with the latest and best in dispatch technology, equipment and safety gear, and assists drivers in maintaining their licensing and training. Ergon Trucking also utilizes trucks and trailers that are independently owned and operated by lease owner-operators. These independents are typically used to help stabilize any seasonal swings in demand for certain products, such as asphalt.

Ergon Trucking serves Ergon’s core refining business segment for highly specialized needs by utilizing its trucks to deliver crude oil from the local Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York and Ohio oil fields as well as to deliver sensitive process oil products, assuring that the products maintain integrity throughout transport. Ergon Trucking also supports crude gathering and trading activities in Mississippi and Louisiana.  

Magnolia Marine Transport Company
With the largest inland waterways asphalt transportation fleet in the United States, Magnolia Marine Transport Company (“Magnolia Marine”) transports crude oil, asphalt, diesel fuel and other products throughout the Mississippi River system and intra-coastal 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 sensitive environmental issues, Magnolia Marine follows a systematic program that regularly replaces older barges with new ones while focusing on logistical planning and coordination to keep customers on schedule for timely delivery and provide 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. As with Ergon’s trucking efforts, the integrity of the specialized products is ensured by the company-controlled transportation system. The railcars are generally leased on multi-year leases.