Fueling Progress

The Steuart Petroleum Company, established in 1904, became the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area's largest independent supplier of commercial and residential oil, lubricants, and fuel. In 1949, it purchased a 320-acre farm bordering the Potomac River and Piney Point Creek and built a 1,200-foot pier where domestic and foreign tankers unloaded jet fuel, home heating oil, industrial fuel oil, and liquid asphalt. These refined products were pumped through six pipelines, each about 5,200 feet long, to a storage and distribution facility across Piney Point Creek, where 28 storage tanks held up to 500,000 barrels of fuel, making the site one of the largest such facilities in the United States. In 1995, the company was sold to Support Terminals Operations Partnership, known as ST Services, and in 2005 Valero Energy L.P. bought ST Services and reorganized in 2007 as NuStar Energy. An affiliate, the Steuart Transportation Company, operated tugboats and barges that carried petroleum products from the Piney Point terminal to Steuart Petroleum terminals in Washington, D.C., and other U.S. East Coast locations.

Piney Point, Maryland · United States