New Fuel Depot - Juan Santamaria International Airport

Hatch Mott MacDonald has been contracted to provide fueling systems design, construction oversight, and technical coordination of a new fuel depot at Juan Santamaria International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, consisting of a 20,000-barrel Jet A-1 storage and dispensing facility; a new hydrant fueling system; an extension of the existing hydrant fuel system from the new fuel depot; and new administration and maintenance buildings.  The project also includes modifications to an existing pump station at a remote tank farm supplying fuel to the new fuel depot storage at the airport via pipeline plus the modification of this existing pipeline.  Site electrical supply and distribution, fire protection, and civil designs are also included.  As a Design-Build Consortium Member, HMM is providing overall Design Management throughout the duration of the Contract, construction inspection for every trade, and resident construction management/engineering services through construction completion. 

Specific Project Fueling System Design Elements include:

• Upgrades to pumping, filtration, measurement, controls, and instrumentation systems to increase pumping pressure at the LaGarita Bulk Terminal (seven miles from airport) to supply fuel to the new airport operating fuel depot.
• New airport depot fueling systems include:
  • ANSI 300 high pressure receipt area with motorized emergency shutdown valves, pig receiver, and pressure reducing station for pipeline receipt
  • Two truck unloading and two refueler loading stations, complete with deadman controls and Scully grounding  verification and overfill protection systems
  • Inbound filtration and product measurement system comprised of prefilters, filter separators, turbine meters, flow, temperature and pressure instrumentation, density meters, and mass meter
  • Four 5,000-BBL Jet A1 fuel storage tanks with all instrumentation, floating suctions, fixed foam fire protection, water cool-down systems, containment dikes, tank bottom leak detection, and cathodic protection
  • Complete site oil/water separation system and site wastewater treatment plant
  • 4,400 gpm hydrant fueling system serving 24 hydrant pits; system equipped with Vista Line Leak Detection System
  • Parking for 40 fuel depot trucks, refuelers, and other service vehicles
  • Vehicle maintenance facility
  • Fuels testing laboratory
  • Refueler vehicle check-out and testing station
  • Valve pits with valved connections for future expansion of hydrant fuel system
  • Surge suppressor stations, high point and low point drain pits
  • Fixed volumetric prover systems
  • Avgas and diesel fuel storage, receipt, and dispensing systems
  • Product recovery systems
  • Site foam and water fire protection systems
  • PLC based control systems with redundancy, UPS, inventory control, and product accounting and transaction programs