Today,
Vagit Alekperov, President of OAO LUKOIL, and Valentina Matvienko, Governor of
Saint-Petersburg, took part in the official ceremony to commission
Russia’s first “water-shore”
double-purpose fuelling station.
The
fuelling station is located on Vyborg Embankment
and can fuel both motor vehicles and small vessels during the navigation season
on the Neva
River.
The
design capacity of the fuelling station is about 500 fill-ups per day, including
60 fill-ups of small vessels.
The
onshore part of the station has four automated fuel dispensers offering three
gasoline grades and diesel fuel available 24 hours a day.
On
the berth, a sailor operator fuels the vessels with AI-95 gasoline or a diesel
fuel from a single fuel dispenser.
According
to the safety requirements, only one vessel can be fuelled at a time and only at
daylight.
The
fuelling station complies with all the environmental requirements established
for regular gas stations, as well as with the standards for construction of
marine terminals used for transhipment of petroleum products.
Four
tanks for AI-92 (25 cu.
m.), AI-95 (25 cu. m.), AI-98
(10 cu.
m.) and diesel fuel (40 cu. m.) have double walls with a
leak control system of the insulation space.
They
also have in-built overflow protection and gas recovery systems.
The
outer metal wall has a special coating, as required
by
fire-fighting regulations
applicable
to underground storage of tanks in the coastal area.
In
case of a petroleum product spill, a guard boat can immediately put up slick
bars or apply sorbents to absorb gasoline spills on the water
surface.
The
fuelling station uses fuel dispensers made by Swedish Wayne Dresser with a gas
recovery system which catches 95% of noxious vapours.
Plastic
fuel lines have a 30-year strength margin.
The
onshore part of the station has a local effluent treatment system.
This
year the Company is planning to construct Saint-Petersburg’s second
“water-shore” fuelling station on Sverdlovskaya Embankment of the Neva River.
