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CPA exec urges Mobil to stock up on aviation fuel
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Posted on Aug 29 2005
The Commonwealth Ports Authority has urged Mobil Marianas Inc. to prevent a repeat of a situation last month where the oil company had to restrict the sale of aviation fuel to airlines due to lack of supply.
CPA executive director Carlos Salas said that, from July 19 to the first week of August 2005, Mobil had to limit the amount of aviation fuel it was selling to airlines because of low supply.
Mobil had also reasoned that the unexpected increase in the number of flights during the period caused the supply problem, according to Salas.
While Mobil’s operations at the Saipan International Airport is now back to normal, Salas said he hoped that this situation would not occur again. He added that Mobil could have prevented it from happening to begin with.
“As the manager of the airport, we get concerned when service is disrupted. We have informed Mobil of our concern. We just wanted to make sure that it’s not a continuing problem,” said Salas.
Mobil, which supplies aviation fuel to airlines operating out of Saipan, has been leasing CPA property since the 1980s. The oil company has a fuel farm at the Saipan airport area and pipelines running from this facility directly to the apron, where airplanes park, refuel, receive maintenance, and load and unload passengers and cargo.
