Consultancy and Engineering Services
Pulling on decades of experience, we can provide a wide range of consulting or engineering services focused on aviation refuelling, and related products. Consulting services include, but are not limited to:
- Operation of storage facilities and into-plane equipment to receive, store, and deliver aviation fuels
- Maintenance and operation of aircraft refuelling equipment for the safe and efficient refuelling and defueling of aviation fuels
- Tankers, hydrant dispensers, and hydrant carts
- Testing aviation fuel for quality control purposes
- Selection of equipment connected with any phase of the day-to-day handling of aviation fuel from transportation and storage to delivery into aircraft
- Advice, when appropriate, on the implementation of changes in the quality of aviation fuels
- Operational standards and procedures, including health and safety
- Into-plane productivity of your operations
- How to identify inefficiencies, monitor KPIs and achieve efficient manpower and vehicle management
- Jet fuel product specifications and development trends in jet fuel specifications, including flashpoint issues, semi synthetic jet fuel, the use of additives, the fuel quality requirements for specific aircraft operations and other issues affecting the quality and handling of aviation fuels
Our expert engineering team, based in Brussels, has completed 184 projects across 27 countries, working from the operators’ point of view to assist with aviation tank farm engineering projects from concept to start-up. They can support on a long-term or ad-hoc basis and can assist with:
- Design concepts including capacity, layout, and cost estimates
- Basic or detailed design including equipment specs, more detailed BoQ, main drawings per technique, etc.
- Front-end engineering design
- Project management and construction supervision
- Commissioning and start-up
Skytanking can perform assessments, audits, analysis, inspections, feasibility studies, and peer reviews of aviation fuelling related installations, including:
- Technical fuel quality assurance with respect to required design features
- Technical HSSE assurance including HAZOP and technical integrity audits
- Maintenance
- Refurbishment and replacement projects, or optimization projects such as optimization of operational hydrants to cope with changes in apron layout
- Technical integrity audits based on JIG2, EI 1530, EI 1540, EI 1560, and industry practices
- Storage and on-airport distribution capacity sizing and expansion planning based on expected long term airport developments
We can also offer documentation support and up-to-date information on everything related to ISO regulations and JIG standards, including:
- EI/JIG 1530 Quality Assurance Requirements for the Manufacture, Storage & Distribution of Aviation Fuels to Airports
- Joint Inspection Group (JIG HSSEMS)
- ISO 45001: 2018 (SMS)
- ISO 9001: 2015 (OMS)
- ISO 14001: 2015 (ENVIRONMENT)
- ISO 500001: 2018 (ENERGY)
- ISO 27001: 2013 (IT-SEC)
- ISO Audit Matrix
For those looking to establish a sustainability program, our sustainability management system provides a framework for identifying, implementing, measuring, monitoring, and reporting on sustainability performance, helping to establish sustainability goals and targets. We can provide support on:
- Sustainability purpose and scope
- Policy and objectives
- Approach to managing ESG
- Leadership and governance
- Strategic alignment
- Sustainability goals and targets
- Sustainability plan and initiatives
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Reporting to stakeholders
For more information on our TSA services, or to tailor a solution that best fits your operational needs, please reach out to tsa.info@skytanking.com.
