In 2019, a new client, the trading arm of a large producer, recognized an opportunity to manage the offtake of crude production volumes moved via rail to the refineries in California and Louisiana from the Permian. At this time, the cost to ship via existing pipelines was exorbitant, and this arbitrage enabled this client to […]

All across North America, Producers are increasingly pressed to find semi-permanent infrastructure options that provide flexibility, minimize capital spends and have lower impacts on their surrounding environments. Sky Eye’s President, Richard Hansen, reflects on the evolution of SKYMOD’s – Sky Eye’s Modular Solutions Packages. Q: Can you tell me what a SKYMOD is?  A: SKYMOD’s are […]

In late 2020, the Sky Eye team was awarded a project to build an Ethanol Railcar Top Offloading solution with a top access platform in Eastern Canada. The Sky Eye team provided a comprehensive SKYRAK solution, including design, complete engineering work and pre-fabrication. The collaborative design wrapped up in May 2021, and the project was […]

In February 2020, Sky Eye was awarded and kicked off front-end engineering design (FEED) for a 975m3/hr Heavy Oil Truck Offloading Terminal for a Western Canadian producer. This project included an overhead piping system, truck offload stations and an on-site operations laboratory. Shortly after the project was awarded, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and this project, […]

Ultimately, Sky Eye’s solution was to design and build a blending solution that simultaneously removed diesel from the trucks and bio-diesel from the railcars, blending it to create the final product. Sky Eye’s modular solution and rapid delivery times meant that our client’s end user could avoid the cost associated with installing permanent infrastructure on […]

An innovative Sky Eye design provides a simultaneous blending and loading solution. At the beginning of March 2020, a large Energy Producer reached out to the team at Sky Eye for a gasoline blending and diesel transloader solution for their site in Guadalajara, Mexico. The solution was on site by June 2020. The transloader was […]

A Retrofitted Project Provides an Efficient and Cost Saving Solution. In May of 2021, a long-term client contacted the Sky Eye team to retrofit an LPG transloader that was previously in operation during 2015.Our client asked Sky Eye to retrofit the original transloader, previously operating in Texas, for current operations in Western Canada. This new […]

A SITE-ADAPTED SOLUTION MEETS SPACE-SAVING DESIGN FOR A MAJOR TANK STORAGE FARM. In early 2020, Bluewing Midstream, approached the Sky Eye Measurement team for a fuel transloading solution for their refined fuels tank storage facility located in the Port of Brownsville, in Brownsville, Texas. This solution involved a refined fuel transloader that could access Bluewing’s […]

A discussion with Sky Eye Measurement’s Operations Manager, Kevin Quilichini, on moving green fuel. With an ever-increasing demand for green fuel and commitment towards sustainability from producers worldwide, we reflect on Sky Eye’s role in the distribution of sustainable fuel.  Q. What are the different types of green fuel options? Where do they come from? […]

Sky Eye delivers turn-key LACT and MCC packages for three locations, tying into a new, clean oil gathering system feeding into Secure Energy’s Fox Creek FST. In late 2019, Secure Energy contracted Sky Eye to design and build three Lease Automated Custody Transfer (LACT) systems with motor control centre’s (MCC’s) for their full-service terminal (FST) […]