Grissom ARB, Indiana
Type III Aircraft Hydrant Fueling System Design
Objective:
Argus designed a new Type III hydrant fueling system to support KC135 Stratotankers assigned to the 434th Air Refueling Wing at Grissom Air Reserve Base. The new system was needed to better meet Grissom’s aerial refueling mission requirements and required complex phasing during construction to maintain operations on the airfield.
Innovation:
Detailed step-by-step requirements were met to ensure Grissom’s refueling mission would not be compromised. Coordination included all levels, including the Wing Commander, BCE, Airfield Ops, Security, Maintenance and Planning. Argus designed a Type III jet fuel (JP-8) hydrant system with two 2,500-barrel operating fuel tanks, pump house, hydrant hose truck checkout station and fill stand at airfield. The project also replaced a bulk storage facility, including transfer pipeline, a pump house, off-load facility, and fill stand. Site improvements were also included. Argus developed multiple phasing plans for installation of new piping and hydrant pits and associated paving. When federal sequestration caused a reduction in the program budget, we were able to identify 15 cost-reduction options, incorporate several and modify the contract documents.
Result
The existing Type II hydrant system and bulk fuel storage systems have been replaced with an upgraded Type III system. The new system serves 16 aircraft fueling positions and includes two 3,500-barrel operating fuel tanks with impermeable dikes and basins, a hydrant hose truck checkout station and a fill stand at the airfield, a product recovery system and a hydrant service checkout stand. The new bulk fuel facility includes four truck offload positions, two truck fill stands and a pump house capable of transferring fuel at a rate of 1,200 gpm through a new 4,600-foot transfer line. Argus also designed a consolidated fuels operations building with a fuels lab for quality control testing. The addition of new offload positions has increased capacity and improved truck refueler staging ability.
Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona
Type III Aircraft Hydrant Fueling System Design
Argus designed a Type III hydrant fuel system to support A-10 Warthog hot refueling efforts at Davis-Monthan AFB. The new hydrant fueling system serves nine aircraft hot fueling positions. A universal wide-body refueling lane was also designed to accommodate KC-135, KC-10 and C-17 aircraft. This new fuel system includes a Type III standard 2,400 gpm pump house with pumps and filter separators, two 10,000 BBL operating tanks with impermeable dikes and basins, fill stands, a product recovery system, a hydrant service checkout stand, a 20-position refueler parking area and the demolition of existing fuel pump houses. A new LEED Silver-Certified fuel operations building is included, along with a new operations building that includes a fuels lab for jet fuel quality control testing.
Duluth Air National Guard, Minnesota
Replace Jet Fuel Storage Complex and Related Environmental Services
From criteria review and environmental planning through Title I and II design and construction services, Argus assisted the Duluth Air National Guard in bringing on line a JP-8 fuel storage facility to support their F-16 flying mission. The facility includes a new aircraft fuel storage complex consisting of two 2,500-barrel above-ground fuel storage tanks, secondary containment, fixed roof, internal pans, two 600 gpm fill stands and two 300 gpm offloading positions. A new pump house, 3,862 sq. ft. heated refueler parking building, and 2,165-square-foot operations building were all constructed to the National Guard Bureau’s LEED requirements. To meet Duluth’s weather requirements, the pump house is an enclosed structure-conditioned space. Following construction, Argus provided facility start-up oversight services, including the witnessing of facility functional testing.
Minot AFB, North Dakota
Design to Replace the Pipeline to the Pump House
Argus designed a new transfer pipeline to replace deteriorating 40-year-old single-wall steel pipe that was failing and threatening to jeopardize the refueling capabilities of the Global Strike Command. The new system replaces 11,000 feet of underground steel piping, including 7,000 feet of 8-inch internally coated carbon steel piping. The new transfer pipeline installation includes pigging provisions at the bulk fuel and Type III pump houses with fittings for leak detection. Piping from the bulk fuel pump house to bulk loading stands will be replaced with 6-inch internally coated carbon steel pipe. The former fuel transfer pipeline will be abandoned in place. Also included in the project were directional boring, installation of valves and fittings, flushing, cathodic protection, site improvements and fill stand pipe replacement.
Hunter AAF, Georgia
Upgrade Fuel Island
Through a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Task Order Contract with the Omaha District of the Corps of Engineers, Argus completed a 35% design for Hunter AAF’s Upgrade Fuel Island Project. This project will rehabilitate, reconfigure and replace major portions of an aviation fuel storage facility to receive, store and issue aviation quality JP-8 fuel. The project included demolition and removal of eleven 50,000-gallon single-walled-steel underground storage tanks, a pump house, and piping as well as remediating contaminated soil as required. New construction includes two five-thousand-barrels, welded steel above-ground storage tanks for operational storage, a Type IV pump house, and associated piping to connect six aircraft hot refueling positions with pantographs. Site improvements include a 900-square-foot operations building, cathodic protection, fire suppression systems, utilities and site drainage.
Logistics Supply Area (LSA) Anaconda, Iraq
Bulk Fuel Storage System Design
Through a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Task Order Contract with the Omaha District of the Corps of Engineers, Argus completed a 35% design for Hunter AAF’s Upgrade Fuel Island Project. This project will rehabilitate, reconfigure and replace major portions of an aviation fuel storage facility to receive, store and issue aviation quality JP-8 fuel. The project included demolition and removal of eleven 50,000-gallon single-walled-steel underground storage tanks, a pump house, and piping as well as remediating contaminated soil as required. New construction includes two five-thousand-barrels, welded steel above-ground storage tanks for operational storage, a Type IV pump house, and associated piping to connect six aircraft hot refueling positions with pantographs. Site improvements include a 900-square-foot operations building, cathodic protection, fire suppression systems, utilities and site drainage.
Al Asad, Iraq
Planning for Cut-N-Cover Facilities (POL 1 and POL 2)
Argus developed project planning documents for two 5,000-barrel Cut-N-Cover facilities. Each facility included a 1,800 gpm Type III Hydrant pumping system, two 600 gpm off-loading systems, two 600 gpm truck fill stands, four position R-11 truck parking, secondary containment, a pipeline connecting the two facilities, and protective canopies covering equipment. One facility also included a fuel operations facility with a petroleum, oils and lubricants (POL) laboratory. A remote tank truck offloading facility was included as a secondary means of fuel receipt.
COB Speicher
Design/Build Fuel Tank System
Argus teamed with Perini and TetraTech to provide fuel storage fast-track design/build services to the USACE Transatlantic Programs Center of Theater Strategic Force Reserve, COB Speicher, Gulf Region North (GRN). The project includes above-ground API-12B bolted storage tanks for DF-2 and JP-8 fuel. An above-ground welded API-650 tank for mogas is also included. Concrete truck stands will be provided for use with mobile force equipment. The layout of protective T-walls and force equipment hoses was expressly designed to ensure efficient operation.