Dubai, Oct 20th, 2008 (WAM): The Petroleum distributuon company of UAE, Emarat announced today that it has achieved recently an important milestone, by commissioning a vapour recovery system in its distribution network.
Emarat has a network of storage terminals and over 180 service stations spread across Dubai and Northern Emirates, Over the years, Emarat has introduced a number of technological upgrades in petroleum product storage and distribution operations for reducing volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions and spills. Dr. Rahma Al Shamsi, Retail Sales Manager, Emarat, today proudly announced yet another of their pioneering projects to support the air quality improvement drive of the government by installing and commissioning a gasoline vapor recovery system in Emarat's gasoline distribution and retail net work. Dr Al Shamsi explained that Emarat, with the drive to bring its gasoline vapour emission levels in par with facilities operating in advanced countries, initiated a detailed study to introduce gasoline vapour recovery for the gasoline distribution operations as early as 2005. The study conducted by Emarat's Engineering and Services Dept, addressed all the operational, technical and economical aspects of the project. Tested technologies are available and are in use in several western countries for gasoline vapor recovery. However, the project costs were substantially high and with the prevailing gasoline prices in UAE, the recovery of investment would take a considerable period. Nonetheless, considering the environmental benefits of the project, Emarat's management approved implementation of the gasoline vapor recovery system in all Emarat retail outlets and the distribution terminals. Emarat will also be introducing vapour recovery system in selected high volume Dealer-operated Stations in the near future and remaining Emarat stations will be brought under Stages I and II progressively by end 2009. Furthermore, all new refueling stations will have gasoline vapour recovery as a standard feature.Copyright Emirates News Agency (WAM) 2008.
