The work scope includes the design and construction of 5.4 million barrels of crude oil storage and the associated civil, mechanical and electrical work at PTP's terminal facilities in Chiriqui Grande on Panama's Atlantic coast, and Puerto Armuelles on the Pacific coast. CB&I, which built the original PTP storage tanks in the late 1970s, was awarded the EPC contract for Phase 1 of the expansion project in May 2008.

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