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Phil Pruchnic connects a Dixon dry disconnect coupling to a tankcar valve at the Atlas Oil crude oil transload facility in Odessa.

Phil Pruchnic connects a Dixon dry disconnect coupling to a tankcar valve at the Atlas Oil crude oil transload facility in Odessa.

More than 30,000 barrels (1.26 million gallons) of crude oil a month is being moved through the new transload site that Atlas Oil Company opened earlier this year in Odessa TX. Served by the Union Pacific Railroad, the five-acre facility has enough trackaPhil Pruchnic connects a Dixon dry disconnect coupling to a tankcar valve at the Atlas Oil crude oil transload facility in Odessa.A crude oil transport leaves after unloading at the Atlas Oil transload site in Odessa.Atlas Oil’s fleet of more than 100 petroleum transports and tankwagons transports a wide range of refined fuel products. The company runs Kenworth trucks and tractors and Heil petroleum trailers.
Logistics and customer service specialists monitor operations system-wide at Atlas Oil’s Taylor MI headquarters.Transloaders show up on the software display as loading racks. The software at the Odessa transload location shows two loading positions.A golf cart is all that is needed to reposition the transloaders used to transfer crude oil from tanker rig to tankcar.A transport driver displays the tractor-mounted centrifuge that is used to determine the specific gravity of crude oil.
A transport driver closes the trailer valve once the crude oil has been transferred to the rail tankcar.Transloaders used by Atlas Oil are essentially a loading rack on a cart. The units have plenty of redundancy to ensure that component breakdowns don’t shut down the crude oil transload process.Transloader components include a MicroLoad control unit and Scully Groundhog grounding system.A Dixon dry disconnect coupling helps reduce the possibility of crude oil spills during the transloading process.
Transloader equipment includes a Smith Meter positive displacement meter and a Veeder-Root register with ticket printer.Crude oil transfer is handled by a Gorman-Rupp electric pump mounted on the transloader.

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