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Barrick Gold is a gold industry leader, with 25000+ employees, 26 operating mines (including Afrian Barrick Gold) producing 7.8 million ounces of gold in 2010. Barrick Gold selected Banlaw FuelTrack™ as their Global fuel management system. Now, Banlaw manage 14 Barrick sites across five countries with more than 400 million litres p.a. of diesel measured and accounted for with a level of accuracy not previously possible.

PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) is a world class producer of high coal thermal with one of the world’s largest open pit mining operations. Located in north-easter Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2010 production was 35.7 million tonnes. KPC commissioned the largest Banlaw installation to date with over 50 Banlaw FuelTrack™ depot consoles on one site in October 2009. Banlaw’s patented Banlaw FuelTrack™ Auto ID system is successfully installed on and tracking over 2000 mine vehicles including heavy, light and contractor vehicles. Fuel accountability is consistent at 99.98% of their 630 million litres per year, or 1.7 million litres a day.

An effective partnership between Banlaw, mining giant KPC and its distributor Atlas Copco Nusantara has been central to the highly successful implementation of an integrated fuel management system at one of the world’s largest open pit mining operations in Sangatta, Indonesia. Five years on, Banlaw’s fuel management system is performing extremely well, saving KPC time and money. The good news is there are still more benefits being realised.

Banlaw is your trusted expert in advising on integrated systems to give you the benefit of fast refuelling and fire prevention. As part of its best practice approach, Banlaw FillSafe™ is the only refuelling system to have an integrated fire-safe valve on the bottom and side entry tank inlets that only remains open during the refuelling process. Fires on-board large equipment often occur during operation and in servicing. In the event of such a fire, fuel loss via the tank inlet is eliminated because the valve is closed. Other valves and systems do not afford the same fire protection while also maintaining safe, fast refuelling times, with zero overflow, zero spillage and zero pressure on tanks.

Time is money in mining, that’s why Banlaw FillSafe™ helps miners to cut service times through safe and effi­cient high-speed refuelling with zero overfl­ow, zero spillage and zero pressure on tanks. Find out how Banlaw helped Glencore (formerly Xstrata Coal) increase their refuelling flow rates to almost 1,100 litres/minute and the measures undertaken to reduce spillage and contamination of oils and coolant. The successful results saw a roll out of the Banlaw FillSafe™ system at other sites – find out the details here.

The Moatize coal mine in Mozambique is Vale’s biggest coal project with a nominal annual production capacity of 11 million tonnes of metallurgical and thermal coal. Vale has awarded Banlaw the FMS contract for thei Moatize mine and they have specified Banlaw to consult as specialists and supply all hydrocarbon assets. Banlaw are responsible for the consolidation and reconciliation of all fuel and oil stock on site. Banlaw FuelTrack™ Enterprise software will allow head office access from Brazil.

Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) is the world’s fourth largest iron ore producer and is still growing. In FY 2014 FMG mined, railed and shipped 124 million tonnes of iron ore. Fortescue examined several fuel management systems before selecting Banlaw to implement its Enterprise Fuel Management System.