A Complete Bulk Fuel Facility: Design to Operations, Built in POM and Mobilised

Client

Herd Base Fuel Facility

Location

Papua New Guinea

SCope of Work

CASE STUDY · PROJECT ENGINEERING & DEPLOYMENT · 2024

EPC Design to operations	PLC Automated barge fill	LV / HV Dispensing	JET A1 Helicopter refuelling

Capability
Project Engineering & Deployment

Sector
Mining
Petrochemical

A full EPC build of a new bulk fuel facility, owned end-to-end by MTIS, from design and procurement through fabrication, pressure testing, painting and commissioning, to operational and service documentation. Constructed in Port Moresby, then mobilised to site as a complete facility.

Scope

Design, procurement, freight and logistics: every discipline run under one MTIS accountability line.
Civil, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation construction, plus in-house fabrication.
Pressure testing, painting, and full commissioning of the facility.
PLC-automated barge loading and unloading of bulk fuel, with overfill protection on each tank, cutting the crew required for fill operations.
Integrated LV and HV dispensing, plus separately designed JET A1 loading and unloading infrastructure with helicopter refuelling.
Operational and service documentation packages delivered alongside handover.

Approach

MTIS held every discipline in-house (design, procurement, freight, logistics, civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, fabrication, pressure testing, painting and commissioning), so there were no interface gaps to manage between trades or vendors. The facility was built and proven in Port Moresby, then mobilised to site as a complete unit. The PLC system was the centrepiece: it automated barge loading and unloading of bulk fuel with per-tank overfill protection, removing manual steps from fill operations and reducing the people needed on the line, while also managing LV and HV dispensing. A separate JET A1 stream delivered loading and unloading infrastructure built for helicopter refuelling.

Front elevation of the Herd Base fuel dispensing facility with LV and HV dispensing equipment, hose reels and MTIS containerised modules in Papua New Guinea

LV and HV dispensing facility.

Herd Base fuel facility showing dispensing skids, bulk fuel storage tanks, pipework and MTIS technicians during EPC works in Papua New Guinea

Fuel dispensing skids and storage tanks.

MTIS technicians commissioning the Herd Base bulk fuel facility in Papua New Guinea with fuel infrastructure and control systems installed

Commissioning the completed facility.

Containerised fuel facility module being lifted into position during the Herd Base EPC build by MTIS in Papua New Guinea

Containerised module lift and site installation.

Outcome

A turnkey fuel facility handed over fully automated and documented, design through operations under a single contract, with the PLC overfill protection and barge-fill automation cutting manual handling and crew exposure during fuel transfer.

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