GPL Anna Regina gets more fuel by sea

May 01, 2009 News

The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) has dispatched another shipment of fuel to Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast by another vessel operated by BK International Inc.
This is according to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GPL, Bharat Dindyal, who at a press conference yesterday told members of the media that the power company has been able to correct all the problems at that power plant, which has been restored to full operational capacity.
A total of 4,000 barrels of fuel were sent to Anna Regina in two shipments, the first on January 9, last, and the other on January 14.
Dindyal said that both shipments of fuel, worth some $40 million, arrived in Anna Regina contaminated. He said that the first shipment was found to be contaminated with water and subsequently, after it was analyzed in Trinidad, it was found that the fuel was actually contaminated with salt water.
“There were also solid contaminants… one was sand and the second was parts of brooms that were used to clean the tanks in Venezuela.”
The CEO said that the company has been able to filter out very easily the parts of the broom, but filtering out the sand is an entirely different matter.
“The water was easy to extract. The sand caused most of the problem at Anna Regina Power Station. In fact it was able to get past our filters and damage our fuel pumps for both engines. We have reported that we have spent US$20,400 to repair those pumps, but of course there were extensive outages and we also had to replace a large quantity of fuel filters,” Dindyal said.
Dindyal admitted that GPL did sell the contaminated fuel to RUSAL at the price that they paid for it, “so that there is no loss incurred by the power company.”
“It is not because we don’t want to put it back into our system, but to be able to remove the sand from it would have been a very time consuming exercise,” Dindyal said.
Meanwhile, as it relates to the shipment of fuel at Skeldon, he explained that there is currently a second shipment of 84,000 gallons of fuel in Skeldon.
He noted that in the first shipment, GPL took precautions of having samples removed from each of the eight compartments in the vessel and had them analyzed for water as a precaution.
They passed the test and the fuel was utilized.
GPL expects to use the same vessel for heavy fuel operations, and for other purposes, since it has an 8,000-gallon capacity.
Currently, two compartments of the vessel are being utilised to store some of the fuel recovered from the oil spill in Kingston, as GPL has run out of alternative storage space in Kingston.

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