Efficient airports are an essential element of Australia’s transport and tourism infrastructure, underpinning a large part of the countries economic activity. Maintaining competitive and efficient fuel supply to Australian airports will be critical to ensure the economic value of the industry to the Australian economy is maximised.
The Sydney Jet Fuel Infrastructure Working Group was requested by the Minister for Tourism, the Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP, to investigate the current and projected fuel supply situation at Sydney Airport and to make recommendations on actions that could be undertaken to provide for the effective provision of jet fuel at Sydney Airport in the short, medium and long term.
The Working Group report:
- provides projections for Sydney Airport jet fuel demand, supply and capacity requirements of supporting infrastructure for 2014, 2019 and 2029, including:
- projected jet fuel demand, including annual and peaks/troughs within a typical year.
- refinery storage capacity.
- import terminal storage capacity and facilities in the basin area surrounding Sydney airport.
- Joint User Hydrant Installation (JUHI) storage capacity and infrastructure.
- pipeline capacities and ratings connecting the facilities associated with supplying jet fuel to the Sydney JUHI.
- identifies barriers to investment.
- provides options that are optimally engineered, commercially viable and environmentally sustainable to meet jet fuel requirements and actions to address the identified barriers to investment.
- includes diagrams that identify the current jet fuel infrastructure network
- provides information on jet fuel infrastructure issues at Melbourne and Brisbane airports as appendices to the main report.
The Sydney Jet Fuel Infrastructure Working Group report was released by Minister Ferguson on 8 June 2010. The report and link to the Minister’s media release is available below.
Enquiries may be directed to:
The Manager
Transport Fuels Section
e-mail: via the Department’s Contact Us webpage