Mobil launches first speedy site fuel station

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PAPUA New Guinea’s first speedy site service station has been opened at 7-Mile in Port Moresby to give new entrepreneurial opportunities for local businesses.
The 7-Mile service station, which was opened yesterday, is a partnership between Mobil Oil Niugini Ltd in partnership with local business Marra International PNG Ltd.
Marra International PNG’s managing director Robert Tia said discussions with the fuel supplier started 12 months ago to build a service station that was easy and fast, which Papua New Guineans could be able to be a part of.
Mobil Oil’s Asia Pacific senior director fuel sales Raymond Wong said the speedy site was a new concept unlike the traditional service station with the fuel storage tanks above ground level and able to relocate to meet infrastructure or road changes.
Wong said another benefit was that the stations were quicker to set up which would be beneficial to local communities in the country which required service stations to meet fuel demands as they were cheap to install.
“We’re talking about taking four to six months to commission a site versus the traditional site which takes up about 18 months to build,” he said.
Wong said the fuel storage tanks had a 40,000-litre capacity.
The 7-Mile service station added to the eight Mobil retail stations already established across the country.
ExxonMobil PNG managing director Andrew Barry said the introduction of the speedy site concept demonstrated the company’s ongoing commitment to investment in the country.
Barry said the speedy site had the potential to positively impact the country’s growing fuel demand.
A second speedy site opens in Lae today with plans to expand to 20 other locations across the country by the end of 2021.
Meanwhile, Tia told the media that the total investment for the service station was about K2.6 million.
He said Mobil would have invested K2 million on the service station and they (Marra International PNG) had invested over K600,000 on all the other developments of the shop.

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