Ew Nadi Oil Terminal
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For Jet Refuelling
IVERYTHING will speed up I around Nadi airport, Fiji, when aircraft operate on the trans cific service.
Fhe Vacuum Oil Company is inning an oil terminal near Nadi, ist will be about <£150,000 Aus lian and chief purpose will be to vice jet aircraft—the first of which II be introduced this year by Cana in Pacific Airlines, Ltd. let aircraft do not use aviation trol, but kerosene. Kerosene is ;aper, of course—but the jets use >re of it. It is calculated that by 54 when BCPA are also using jets the trans-Pacific service, the total ided to refuel aircraft at Nadi will 4,500,000 gallons per year— r aut three times more than the antity of orthodox aviation gaso e now consumed.
Vacuum will build their new oil minal at Buda Point, near Nadi, ere tankers can discharge the jet ;1 to land storage tanks by a sub irine pipeline.
New refuelling equipment will also installed and the jets will take on ■osene at the rate of 400 gallons minute compared with about 100 lons of aviation fuel as at present.