THE
RECENT fire outbreak at the Buipe Depot of the Bulk Oil Storage and
Transportation (BOST) Company Limited resulted in the loss of 36,000 litres of
petrol valued at about GH¢200,000.
The
disaster, according to BOST, started late in the evening of January 3, this
year, and caused considerable damage to four bulk road vehicles (BRVs), two of
which were loaded with petroleum products on the premises of the company.
Marlick
Adjei, Head of Corporate Communications and External Affairs at BOST, said one
of the two trucks on the premises which also contained 36,000 litres of diesel did
not explode even though there was considerable damage to both trucks.
“At
the current price of GH¢5.41/litre,
the value of the product lost is estimated at GH¢194,760,” the statement noted.
The
company disclosed that the affected BRVs belonged to the Ghana Oil Company
(GOIL) and BF Energy, adding that per the standard of operating procedures, the
trucks were not supposed to park within the premises of the depot.
The
depot, which is the central fuel holding point of BOST, served the five regions
of the north – Savanna, Northern, North-East, Upper East and Upper West – and
receives products through river barges and BRVs from the Accra Plains depot of
BOST.
BOST
indicated that there was a sizable volume of products destroyed in the accident
even though products supplied to the five regions remained untampered with.
The company assured the general public that its strategic fuel stocks for the affected regions and the country at large remained intact, adding that the cause of the fire was under investigation.
By Ernest Kofi Adu
