The company Cepsa has taken the first steps to start dismantling the Refinery Santa Cruz de Tenerife and launch the project Holy Cross Green 2030agreed with the administrations.
This process, which consists of two phases and is expected to be completed in eight years, involves the execution of a new Fuel Storage and Distribution Park in the Port of Granadilla, for which Cepsa already has an administrative concession, whose project and evaluation of environmental impact are submitted to public information after being published yesterday in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC). Those interested in submitting allegations have a month to do so.
“It is one more step for the refinery to be dismantled and the Santa Cruz Verde 2030 project can be developed with a new city, with new services and with expansion to the south. The dismantling of some tanks this year will allow us to see what the orography of that land will look like once that industry disappears,” the mayor of Santa Cruz, José Manuel Bermúdez, declared yesterday, after being consulted on this matter.
The new facility to be located in Granadilla must be adjusted to the island’s management plans. It will house 13 cylindrical tanks with a vertical axis and different volumes, grouped into two retention basins and whose distribution must comply with the requirements of the Facilities Regulations oil companies All of them will allow a total of 125,000 cubic meters of hydrocarbons to be stored.
Execution of auxiliary installations
Likewise, the action contemplates the execution of auxiliary installations, pumps, separating filters, additive skids and vapor recovery units and the adaptation of the alignment of the Outer Breakwater of the Port of Granadilla, for the purpose of receiving and supplying petroleum products, carrying out the installation of lines with the docking area for ships.
The decommissioning process is planned to be carried out in two phases. The first of these will be the dismantling itself and the decontamination of the units that are empty and the subsoil, and will be completed in 2025. The second will be the relocation to the port of Granadilla of the facilities that are operational and that are expected to culminate in 2030.
