GNBS holds consultation on draft standards for transportation of petroleum products

THE Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) on Thursday held the National Consultation on Draft Standards for the Transportation of Petroleum and Petroleum Products at the Regency Hotel, Hadfield Street, Georgetown.Director of GNBS, Evadnie Enniss told the gathering that the first in a series of consultations would seek to develop a national standard for the transportation of petroleum and petroleum products.

She said: “We are aware it has serious implications for safety and when we look around our country today we see so many malpractices with respect to how fuel is transported. What it is transported in and the kinds of things people do in order to have fuel taken to locations such as the interior.”

Enniss stated that the session looked at the type and kind of containers fuel should be stored in and the height in which the fuel should be stored if it is going to be placed in a truck and the area it is placed.

She said: “We had lively discussions on carrying capacity on containers where persons were insisting that if a drum marked 45 gallons it should carry more, but we learnt that it is only applicable to plastic containers where they try to stretch the plastic using some methods to carry extra fuel. But that is dangerous because the materials that are contained can ignite and that is why it is not recommended that these containers be used.”

Enniss said that they also had discussions about fire safety, spillages among other topics such as bulk transportation carriers and road tanker wagons. Among the participants were several employees of the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA).

And also making a presentation on the subject was Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), Mahender Sharma and he was available to answer questions posed by the invitees.
Written By Michel Outridge

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