 
Contact Address Details:
Gam-Petroleum Gambia Ltd.
Banjul area head office
Standard Chartered House
2nd Floor
16 Kairaba Avenue,
Fajara M Section
& Mandinari Village
Kombo North, Western Region
The Gambia,
West Africa
Tel no: +220 4396288
4396269
Fax: +220 4396276
Email: manhal@eagl.gm
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Information:
 The
Gam-Petroleum company has a modern storage facility at the
Mandinari Fuel Storage Depot located on the Western Region
of The Gambia.
Cost:
Inaugurated on the 24th May, 2008, it was built at a cost
of €32 million (US $50 million). Equity for the project was
split between Gam-Petroleum's holding group, Total International,
which will be the exclusive supplier of petroleum products
for the new terminal, and partly from Gambian and European
banks.
Mandinari Facility:
Built according to international standards with SGS certification,
it consists of 17 fuel tanks. The total storage capacity of
the site is 51,000 metric tons of heavy and light fuel oils
as well as LPG (liquid propane gas), and includes 19 loading
bays for tanker trucks, state-of-the-art technology in gauging
and metering equipment, a fully equipped LPG bottling
plant and 3 off-shore pipelines of 2.5 km each to access the
draft for birthing big fuel tankers.
Gam-Petroleum now operates the sub-region's largest oil and
gas storage container facility which is set to boost supply
not only in The Gambia but also in neighbouring countries,
and it is hoped that the terminal will act as a a refuelling
stop and bunkering hub for vessels en route to South Africa
and South America.
Previous Situation:
The one existing terminal in the country was built in the
1940s in Banjul at Half-Die area, and has a limited capacity
to supply the whole of The Gambia with just under 1 month
of fuel. This has always meant that petroleum imports had
to be timed exactly. When oil tankers were delayed at other
ports or on the high seas, it often resulted in shortages,
and a halt in supply. The only other heavy fuel oil storage
facilities in the country are situated at the power generation
plants, which had meant extra costs in transport as fuel was
taken by transport to the plants from the port. The Mandinari
fuel depot can hold 6 months of the Gambia's fuel and gas
consumption from the current storage capacity of less than
a month.
This increased fuel storage capacity will have
accompanying secondary effects
on availability and prices which in turn have significant effects on
domestic developments.
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