# Limetree Bay (VI LIB)

**UN/LOCODE:** VI LIB  
**Country:** U.S. Virgin Islands  
**Water Body:** Caribbean Sea; North Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Very Small  
**Harbor Type:** Open Roadstead  
**GPS:** 17.7000, -64.7500

Built as the marine arm of what was once the HOVENSA refinery — a Hess–PDVSA joint venture on the south shore of St. Croix — Limetree Bay today operates as Ocean Point Terminals. The facility offers about 34 million barrels of storage across 167 tanks and 11 docks, including an offshore single-point mooring that can handle vessels up to VLCC size. A brief 2021 refinery restart ended after a gas-flare incident, followed by bankruptcy and the sale of the refining assets, while the bulk-fuel terminal kept running. Its trade is crude oil and petroleum products, not containers or breakbulk. Shippers with containerized or general cargo for the U.S. Virgin Islands route through Crown Bay on St. Thomas and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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