Crude oil storage company Fairway Energy Partners on Thursday announced the closing of an undisclosed amount of private equity financing from Haddington Ventures, with proceeds to be used to construct the first phase of the Pierce Junction crude oil storage facility.Fairway will convert three existing underground storage caverns at the Pierce Junction Salt Dome in south Houston, Texas, into crude oil storage service and will build-out all requisite pipelines, brine ponds, interconnects and pumping capacity to put the facility into commercial service, Kallanish learns.The initial phase of the project is expected to be in service by the end of 2016 and has been designed to allow for storage of roughly 10 million barrels (MMBbl). Overall, Fairway has expansion rights up to a total of approximately 20 MMBbl at Pierce Junction.Phase I also includes the construction of two separate bi-directional, 24-inch pipelines to connect the facility to the existing Houston area crude oil grid, adding
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