Diesel
delivery made easier
By Louis B Homer
Trinidad Express
Port
Spain
Petroleumworldtt.com
07 16 07
With the opening of new storage facilities for
gas oil on the compound of Rahamut Enterprises
Limited at Cross Crossing, San Fernando, retailers
are expected to get a more efficient delivery system
which will reduce the long waiting time experienced
under the present system of delivery.
At last week's launch of the opening of the facility,
Lawford Dupres, chairman of Trinidad and Tobago
National Petroleum Marketing Company Limited said
REL's facilities will be used to complement the
goals of NP in achieving better customer service,
improved operational efficiency and give support
to a more positive health, safety and environmental
awareness in the industry.
Championing
the facility Dupres said: "There
is a growing demand for fuel, especially diesel,
as the economy of the country continues to grow."
The facility is capable of storing more than 200,000
gallons of diesel.
He was confident that REL with its successful
25- year record of delivering fuel to the nation
will bring about a new culture in the industry.
He said the facility, described as the first of
its kind in the country built by a privately owned
company, will help REL achieve its goal of zero
stockouts.
The facility, which was declared open last week
Thursday by Dupres in the presence of officials
from the Ministry of Energy and Energy Based Industries,
consists of six large steel tanks complete with
compressors and other equipment needed to operate
the plant successfully.
The tanks have a capacity to store 207,000 gallons
of diesel which will be for distribution to industrial
and commercial users throughout the country.
All safety arrangements at the plant were approved
by the Environmental Management Authority, it was
noted.
Dennis Ramdeen, Special Projects Manager attached
to REL, said the object of storing gas oil in such
large quantities was to help retailers get their
supplies without having to face long delays at
Pointe a Pierre and Port of Spain.
He explained that under the present system delivery
trucks spent long hours at the gantry waiting for
supplies.
"With this new facility deliveries will be
done in a faster way and customers will be provided
with a more efficient service," Ramdeen said.
He
said the multi-million dollar investment will
provide customers with supplies, "not only
at service stations but from the plant at Cross
Crossing."
Ramdeen said the plant was constructed over a
two- year period and during construction scores
of people were employed. He said the partly automated
plant will be run by five employees, specially
trained to make safe and efficient deliveries.
Ramdeen
said at any one time the facility will have between
80 to 90 per cent of the total capacity
of the tanks. "We want to ensure that there
will be no shortage of supplies," he said.
Trinidad
Express
Wednesday, July 11th 2007
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