Opinion ID: 2207621
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Heading: The Oceanport Facility

Text: The Oceanport terminal is located in the coastal zone at Claymont, Delaware, approximately six miles north of Wilmington. The site occupies 46.9 acres with eight hundred feet of frontage on the Delaware River. Once known as the Paragon Oil Petroleum Tank Farm, Texaco began operations at the site in 1905. The property includes petroleum storage tanks and a wooden pier extending 740 feet into the Delaware River, which have been used for the off-loading and storage of petroleum for at least thirty-five years. Oceanport purchased the site from Texaco in September 1986, and has operated it since that time. The area surrounding the Oceanport facility is zoned for heavy industrial use. Airco is on the southwest; Citisteel is next to Airco on the south; General Chemical abuts on the northeast; and the manufacturing facility and pier of the Allied Chemical Company is to the immediate north.