EAPC ACTIVITIES
The EAPC is a controlled and supervised government company and its activity is essential for Israel’s energy economy and its continuous functioning in routine and emergency situations. The company’s activities are of strategic importance and affect political aspects, and it is responsible for ensuring the energy security and the continuous supply of energy to the State of Israel and its residents, while preserving the environment. The EAPC has two facilities in Ashkelon and Eilat that include crude oil loading and unloading ports, fuel products, liquified petroleum gas (LPG) and coal, receipt facilities for natural gas, and dedicated fuel lines and storage facilities.
Reverse Flow
The EAPC is located at one of the most strategic junctions in the world and is a land bridge connecting Europe, the United States and the East. In 2003, due to its location and changes in the global fuel movement and the increase in production of oil in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea region, alongside increased consumption in East Asia – the EAPC identified the possibility of changing the direction of oil movement from west to east, and initiated the “reverse flow” project. The EAPC’s bi-directional flow, one of the few of its kind in the world, allows crude oil to flow through the 42” Eilat – Ashkelon line in both directions, creating flexibility and maximizing storage volumes and enabling the transfer of crude oil from the Mediterranean to Eilat and from there to Asian markets, while preserving the ability to transfer water from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
Crude Oil - Ashkelon
Crude Oil - Eilat
Fuel Products
Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG)
Coal
EAPC Ashkelon Complex
The company’s Ashkelon complex includes a port in the open sea and storage tanks serving the company’s operations. The various energy inputs are transported to the facility in Ashkelon from both Line 42 (which comes from the tanks farm at Ramat Yotam in Eilat) and from tankers that are unloaded in the company’s port in Ashkelon. The oil and fuel products are transferred from Ashkelon to the refineries and distribution centers that provide energy to the residents of Israel. In addition, oil and its products are also loaded into tankers sailing from Israel to various ports around the world.
Loading and Unloading Activity
Storage
Natural Gas Terminal
EAPC Eilat Complex
The company complex in Eilat is a strategic national security asset of the State of Israel, which enables the supply of energy sources continuously in routine and in emergency situations.