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pter 3 - Supnly of POL Products.
The Petroleum products were available as required to satisfy Oper-
ation HARDTACK requirements.
Limited bulk storage facilities, however,
necesei tated daily monitoring of stock balances and frequent adjusting
of petroleum tanker schedules to insure the mintenance of minimum
operational requirements.
(See figure 7 and
8, fuel co%sumption).
The existing bulk storage capacity is 614,500 gallons JP-4; 774,500
gallons AvGas; 78,000 gallons MoGas and 158,000 gallons of diesel.
No
difficulty was experienced in maintaining adequate stocks of MoGas and
diesel; however, during periods of intensified flying stocks of JP-4
and AvGas became critical.
The daily issues, stock balances, projected
daily requirements and petroleum re~supply tanker schedules were re-
viewed daily to identify actions necessary to preclude depletion of
stocks.
The storage space did not always permit the isolation of tested
fuel and on occasions it was necessary to contaminate tested fuel with
new fuel in order to accept delivery of maximim quantities from the
tanker.
Arrangements were made with the petroleum testing Jaboratory
at Pearl Harbor, TH, to test our fuel samples and to report results
expeditiously.
The support rendered was excellent we were able to
avoid using untested fuel, although on occasions fuel was serviced
into aircraft within hours after receipt of the analysis results.
As part of the support of the Weather Islands, (Kusaie, Rongelap,
Kapingamarangi, Tarawa, Nauru, Wotho, Utirik, Ujelang), it was
necessary to preposition drummed MoGas and diesel fuel.
Quantities
estimated were adequate and were in place in time to meet our operational
requirements,
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