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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Puma Energy brought its new fuel storage facility online in South Africa’s Richards Bay. The company also saw the start of aviation fuel supply to the OR Tambo International Airport during January.
Housed at the Bidvest Tank Terminal (BTT) in Richards Bay, Puma Energy has established this new storage facility in response to increased demand for refined products, driven by greater market needs for higher grade fuels. This facility will secure energy supply to the market as well as creating jobs. Furthermore, the Richards Bay terminal will help unlock the potential of the Richards Bay Port, the neighboring Industrial Development Zone, and the KwaZulu-Natal region as a whole.
The site at Richards Bay, which is operational around the clock, will allow fuel to be distributed by rail and road. The facility is a premium products terminal with a storage capacity of 46 million liters to house diesel minimum 50ppm, mogas 95, JetA1 and liquid paraffin. Mogas 95 was the first product to be imported and discharged into the tanks on the weekend of January 13th, diesel 50ppm was discharged during the week of January 16th and the terminal will be dispatching its first truck for delivery into the local market this week.
The Richards Bay storage facility adds to the opening last year of the 110 million liters Matola Storage Terminal in neighboring Mozambique, Puma Energy’s second largest storage capacity in Africa.
Puma Energy started operations at the Johannesburg airport on January 1, strengthening its African network and enhancing supply security to this major international airport. With fuel being transported by road and rail, security of supply has now significantly improved for JetA1 into O.R. Tambo International Airport thanks to the new supply routes from these two state of the art terminals in Maputo and Richards Bay. O.R. Tambo brings the number of airports where Puma Energy operates to 68.
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