27 thoughts on “Expect Delays

    1. Paps

      A tunnel to transport this seems an excellent idea – why would you not prefer this over carrying the fuel on the roads in fuel tankers?
      Surely more people have died in accidents with trucks than incidents involving fuel lines? Jet fuel has a very very high ignition point anyway. Gas lines are much more dangerous.

    1. Tidy Dave

      I’ve learnt a lot from my armchair. I even read a book about how to build your own furniture. I was going to build my own armchair but I thought, sure I know it all about armchairs now, I’d rather just sit here.

  1. medieval knievel

    one minor detail – dublin city council do not ‘want to lay a fuel pipe from the port to the airport’.

    the sign quite clearly says the application has been made by fingleton white.

  2. Conor

    Without getting high and mighty on you all, this is a very normal, and very safe way of transporting jet fuel…

    Did you know that Dublin airport is one of the very few airports in Europe that does not have a hydrant system and relies solely on delivering fuel by truck [bowser]?

    Did you know that Dublin airport, at best, has about 1 day’s supply of jet fuel on site at any given time?? i.e. cut off supplies from Dublin port = no fuel for aircraft within about 24 hours!!!!

    The above paint an absolutely unacceptable risk to aviation in Ireland. With one fell swoop, all air traffic out of Dublin could be compromised because we have no fuel available for aircraft.

    These days, jet fuel transport is managed at the same safety level as that of aircraft, i.e. ridiculously high! There are numerous international standards and guidelines that DAA will need to follow to build such a pipeline, and commission it.

    No risk, [other than some traffic risk along the building area], and we should actually be glad that a government is actually improving one of the main supportive arteries of transport in Ireland!!!

    Rant over, anyone want any aviation or jet fuel related gems, please get in touch… I know a little about such things!!

    Conor

    1. Mr. T.

      “i.e. cut off supplies from Dublin port = no fuel for aircraft within about 24 hours!!!!”

      Oh you mean like a pipe being cut off?

      1. conor

        First off, no PR, I don’t represent anyone from IAA, DAA, Dublin City Council etc. I work for an airline and I’m responsible for developing worldwide jet fuel standards. One of those standards is risk analysis to supply to a port. The pipeline addition is only a small part of a tender that DAA has put out for the overall overhaul of Dublin airports fuel infrastructure. Most airports in the world have about 4 to 5 days worth of fuel on site. Dublin airport falls below most developed countries standards in terms of available fuel on site.

        If we allow Dublin airport to grow with current fuel facilities, we would be unable to fuel aircraft. We had IATA fuel forum in Dublin last May where DAA were advertising their tender to upgrade said facilities which appears to be now going ahead… Finally

  3. scottser

    turn balbriggan into a port and pipe it down to the airport from there. place is a sh1thole anyway, and could do with the investment. fingal cc would grant planning in a heartbeat..

  4. banchang

    Good post Conor – completely agree with you. This infrastructure is needed to take these trucks off the road, many of which speed by me as I’m driving at the 80k/hr speed limit on the motorway to & from the airport.

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