Agip Aviation Service

Eni provides technical and operational service to numerous companies in Italy and abroad.

In particular, this activity covers the following aspects:

Basic Service:

• Preparation of preliminary feasibility studies – technical and commercial – by sending specialized technicians, if necessary.
• Design of plant and vehicles needed for correct handling, storage and into-plane supply of Jet Fuel, providing names of eventual suppliers and contractors.
• Supervision of work done by specialized personnel plus assistance during the start-up phase.
• Basic training of operational and management personnel with theoretical sessions and practical training for operations but also for Safety/Health/Environment aspects, with a final test to check that the material has been satisfactorily understood and learned.
• Preparation and supply of Operations Manuals in line with international regulations.
• Preparation and supply of plant Maintenance Manuals.
• Supply of “Aircraft Fuelling Data‘ Manual.
• Supply of the Check List showing the minimum quality requierements for Jet A/1.
• Issue of the insurance policy necessary to carry out aircraft refuelling operations, with a cover of 1.000.000.000 Euro.

Support Service:

• Checking whether existing plants are up to the standards required by international bodies and airlines, by sending qualified international inspectors.
• Help in solving problems arising during operations, if necessary by sending spare parts and/or providing names of firms specialized in the specific sector of the help required.

Help in improvements:

• Design of systems for systematic control of product quality.
• Design and supply of software for global management of depot and into-plane operations.
• Updating the Manuals and Check List mentioned in the basic activities.
• Professional updating for operators and site managers.
• Inclusion in the mailing list to recive and send news of general interest (meetings, new specifications, innovations, accidents, etc.) can be sent.
• Help in obtaining ISO/VISION certifications by international bodies

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR SERVICES PLEASE CONTACT:

Pristerà Francesco - Aviation Business Development and Technical Assistance Manager
tel. +39 06 5988 6840 – fax 06 5988 7145
francesco.pristera@eni.it

Aircraft refuelling represents only the final act of a long and detailed series of operations and checks which begin from the moment Jet Fuel is produced in the refineries and end at the moment when the fuel is pumped into the plane’s fuel tanks Right from the moment of its production, Jet Fuel is “under armed guard‘.

It is subjected to over 30 analyses to make certain that it complies with the standards requested:
only if it passes all the tests it will receive a certificate of origin which will accompany it through all its movements right up to the aircraft tanks. But even this is not enough. In fact, in order to ensure no contaminations during its handling Jet Fuel has to pass several control tests and treatments which become more and more restrictive.

The control tests which passes jet fuel

The most common methods of taking the fuel on board are:

• by use of special roadtankers called refuellers
• by use of special vehicles called dispensers

The main difference between the two systems lines is that in the case of the refuellers the Jet Fuel is brought right under the plane's wing by a roadtanker which is often of great capacity (up to 84.000 litres), while the dispenser draws the fuel from specific points located in the aircraft parking area, which are connected to a network of underground pipes (Hydrant Refuelling System).

Both systems have special devices. The main ones are:

• systems to regulate the refuelling pressure so as to avoid any damage to the aircraft's tanks;
• special filters (microfilters water separator or monitor filters)capable of retaining even the smallest solid impurities and to remove any water present.
• sample points to check the fuel delivered to the aircrafts
• "dead man" system to fastly stop the fuelling operation in case of emergency
• "interlock" system to avoid undesidered movements of the vehicles
• until all equipments are not in the right position
• an automatic fire extinguisher for the fuelling station and two portable fire extinguishers
• for a quick action in case of fire
• elevating platform to fuelling high wing aircraft

Hydrant Refuelling System