Large Oil refinery in US moves to TETRA Technology
The refinery maintains its own fire crew and equipment to prevent, manage, and mitigate fire related issues at the refinery, thus relieving local area fire departments of primary responsibility for handling those matters.
Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend filed the application seeking to license three UHF Public Safety Radio Pool channels for use in its radio system in Minnesota. In connection with this application, Flint Hills Resources requested a waiver of the eligibility requirements listed in section 90.20 of the FCC Commission’s rules.
The company currently operates one of the largest oil refineries in the Unites States, in Rosemount, Minnesota and wants to replace its aging analog radio system with TETRA as the old system is no longer supported by the vendor.
The new TETRA system will serve its plant operations for purposes of plant safety.
The refinery maintains its own fire crew and equipment to prevent, manage, and mitigate fire related issues at the refinery, thus relieving local area fire departments of primary responsibility for handling those matters.
Flint Hills Resources in its operations works closely with local fire, EMS, and police departments, and supports those communities when called upon by their emergency responders.
The company calculated that it is necessarily to install a two site TETRA System in order to make sure reliable and safe communications are possible. However, the company has been unable to secure enough exclusive spectrum for which it is eligible. Consequently, Flint Hills Resources proposes to use three 450-470 MHz band Public Safety Pool channels at one location. After the transition to the new system, Flint Hills Resources will cancel any existing channels that are not needed for operational purposes. Flint Hills Resources’s frequency coordinator certified that no appropriate Industrial/Business channels are available at that location, and obtained concurrence from Public Safety Pool frequency coordinators that the requested channels are unassigned and will not cause interference to existing operations.
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