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YOC Community Fuel Depot
Project Information
- Project Location:
- KS
- Status:
- Completed
- Structure Type:
- Terminal - Airport / Bus / Railroad
Scope Of Work
Community aviation, heating auto fuel depot at Old Crow Airport Yukon, Canada
Old Crow is a community 167 located Canada’s northern Yukon it is only accessible via aircraft. Hence, all fuel, including heating oil, low sulfur diesel, unleaded gasoline, Avgas, Jet-A, are all provided via aircraft delivery. Argus was retained to assess all fuel storage tanks within community consumption present options for a new centralized community fuel depot with additional fuel storage tanks new unloading pumps, filters, refueler loading equipment dispensing for various fuels.
Argus partner W.S. Nicholls Western built community’s new centralized fuel depot at Old Crow airport, consisting 16 total tanks, five separate unloading systems, one bulk loading system four dispensing systems. new equipment was designed so that it could be delivered via C-130 Hercules aircraft or on community’s once-a-decade winter road (as seen on History Channel’s “Ice Road Truckers”), is skid-mounted for easy installation mobility. Heated enclosures have been built to tolerate extreme weather conditions to be explosion proof.