The chemical refining plant on the Houston ship channel, with an approximate thousand-acre complex, had deployed security guards on a 24-hour basis to provide security at its dock facility in order to meet the Coast Guard’s new maritime security regulations.
The dock area for this plant is located far from the main complex. There was no electrical power for the camera equipment. After four months of study by the plant engineering and maintenance departments, the estimate for installing just the conduits for both electrical power and the various video signals from the new dock cameras would be $425,000.