Gulf Aviation Georgia provides the highest level of service and support, supplying aviation fuels to all international and a number of regional airports and airfields in Georgia, directly or through partnership with local service providers.
Utilizing a dependable, dedicated truck fleet, Gulf Aviation Georgia adheres to strict quality control procedures, ensuring the fuel we provide is delivered safely and complies with the latest industry specifications.
Besides, the company’s own laboratory provides on-call fuel quality control services for third parties.
1. Fuel unloading
Depending on regional infrastructure jet fuel is delivered to a fuelling facility:
- by railroad
- by road
- by river/sea oil carrier
Upon delivery, the fuel passes through a set of incoming quality control procedures and is recorded as inventory once the necessary supporting documents have been drafted.
1. Fuel unloading
Depending on regional infrastructure jet fuel is delivered to a fuelling facility:
- by railroad
- by road
- by river/sea oil carrier
Upon delivery, the fuel passes through a set of incoming quality control procedures and is recorded as inventory once the necessary supporting documents have been drafted.
2. Post-filtration fuel transfer
The fuel is transferred to tanks after it has been filtered.
3. Fuel storage
Once the fuel has been transferred to tanks, it undergoes sedimentation (gravity-induced particle settling). A fuel sample is then analyzed in an on-site laboratory. If the results of quality testing are satisfactory, a quality pass is issued, and the fuel can then be either used for refuelling or long-term storage subject to subsequent continuous warehouse control.
4. Continuous quality control
Quality control is exercised at all stages of the jet fuel supply process – by visual inspection, instrumental verification, and via laboratory testing. The latter aims to establish whether there have been any significant changes in the quality of aviation fuels between the above stages, and whether the fuels are suitable for use in an aircraft. Quality assessment is conducted using representative samples from:
- transportation means (pipelines, railway tanks, oil carriers
- tanks and other fuel storage
- refuelling, filtration, and water trapping equipment
5. Specialized vehicles and equipment maintenance and repair, specialized transportation within airport boundaries
All the necessary procedures related to maintenance and repair, as well as technical permissions for vehicles and equipment to be used for refuelling are overseen by the facility’s transportation and engineering service teams.
6. Pre-refuelling operations
Pre-refuelling operations involve transferring fuel from tanks to refueller trucks via loading points or delivering fuel into the Hydrant System subject to filtration, water trapping, and on-apron quality check.
7. Special vehicles traffic coordination
Vehicle-assisted refuelling operations require close communication with the flight service to properly arrange apron traffic according to the established layout.
8. Refuelling
Refuelling is carried out with the use of specialized vehicles either employing their own jet fuel tanks or specialized hydrant dispensers.
Refuelling operations can be completed with both vehicles which carry jet fuel tanks (refueller trucks) and hydrant dispensers which are used for connecting an aircraft’s filler well to a hydrant pipeline. It is at this stage that the actual refuelling is carried out subject to filtration, water trapping, and measurement of the amount dispensed. Refuelling vehicles and equipment are configured to a suitable throughput and refuelling mode to avoid damage to the aircraft’s fuel system.
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