Ashkelon Oil Port (Ashkelon)

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The Ashkelon open sea oil port operates the following discharging and loading facilities:
Berth no.1 for oil products (multibuoy)
Berth no. 2 for oil products and fuel oil (multibuoy)
LPG berth (multibuoy)
Two SPM berths, no. 3 and no. 4, for crude oil
A coal jetty
The SPM berths are located 3.2 km offshore at a water depth of 31 meters and have a loading and discharging capacity of 7,500 cubic meters per hour. These berths accommodate tankers of up to 300,000 DWT.
Berths no. 1 and 2 are used to load and unload oil products (gasoline, jet fuel and gasoil). The Berths accommodate tankers of up to 130,000 DWT.
A modern computerized system controls the channeling of different oil products unloaded at these berths. The oil products are transferred to the adjacent Petroleum & Energy Infrastructure Company Ltd. (PEI) tankfarm, where they are pumped into the national oil products network.
The LPG berth accommodates LPG tankers of up to 7,000 DWT.

One Katyusha rocket from Gaza hit the Ashkelon oil port recently. This facility is considered to be among the most sensitive sites in Israel and contain tons of dangerous materials that, should they have leaked due to a salvo hit, could have killed or injured hundreds of people in Ashkelon.