Kelvin M Hardingham Williams Fire & Hazard Control inc. MANCHESTER 2005

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1 Kelvin M Hardingham Williams Fire & Hazard Control inc. MANCHESTER 2005 Kelvin M Hardingham Williams Fire & Hazard Control Lead Fire fighter & Manager

2 Turkey Summer, 1999

3 Chevron Marketing Terminal - Honolulu

4 AUSTRALIA

5 LUISIANNA

6 Escravos Refinery Chevron - Nigéri ria

7 MOBIL OIL UK

8 Gdansk refinr finéry - Poland

9 MOBIL NEW ORLEANS

10 ORION NARCO REFINERY

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15 TANK FIRES DON T T HAPPEN!! TO DATE 80 + FULL SURFACE TANK FIRES EXTINGUISHED BY Williams Fire & Hazard Control inc.

16 Sample of the many full surface tank firesaround the world successfully extinguished by WF&HC Dome Petroleum 7 tanks crude oil Navajo Refinery 2 tanks Gasoline Tenneco Louisiana 1 tank gasoline Mid Valley pipeline co. 3 crude tanks Chevron Port Arthur 3 Blended product tanks Shell Belfree Tank Amoco tank MTBE Exxon Baton Rouge 15 tanks various products Stapleton airport 2 tanks jet fuels Sunoco tank raffinate Ultramar California tank Steuart Petroleum Gasoline tank Chevron Midland tank crude oil Teppco Baytown tank Gasoline Tejas Texas 3 tanks condensate Phillips 3 tanks crude oil Chevron Pascagoula tank blended gasoline Aruba Carribean several tanks various Guatemala tank blended product Teppco sealy tank crude oi Orion Tank Gasoline Repsol Spain 6 tanks variou

17 Typical Causes Weather Equipment Failure Human Vapour release Adjacent incident Terrorist action & many others

18 Small sample of Countries where recent Full surface tank fires not using WF&HC equipment or technologies failed to be extinguished Turkey Russia Thailand Mexico Brazil Poland Albania Japan France India Nigeria Lybia Etc. Etc. Australia Jamaica

19 Are you prepared if it happens? or is it It will never happen to me! This Fire Chief thought that also As well as the Fire Chiefs and those others shown earlier

20 FULL SURFACE TANK FIRES There are always options in life and business WHAT ARE YOUR OPTIONS? Do nothing play the roulette wheel keep your fingers crossed probabilility says you may be lucky Plan to control the incident if it happens in the office that may seem easy SUNOCO, REPSOL, TOTAL, GDANSK etc. etc. IF EITHER OF THE ABOVE GOES WRONG THEN WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCIES? catastrophic $ losses & people? Public relations disaster? Criminal proceedings? OTHER OPTIONS PROTECT YOUR BANK BALANCE By PLANNING TO PUT IT OUT SAFELY & QUICKLY

21 The Cost Of A Small 150 ft (45 metre) ) Burning Tank Tank Specifics Diameter Height Tank Cost ($/Ft2) * 150 Ft ( 45 metre) 65 ft ( 20 metre) $ Extinguishing Specifics Application Rate Percent Of Concentrate Recommended Duration 0.16 (6.5 lpm) 0.03% 65 min Concentrate Cost ($/gal.) Product Specifics Product Cost ($/bbl) $ ( $ 4.20 per litre) $ Burn Rate (Ft/hr.) 1 (0.3 metre) Number Of Like Tanks 7 *37.30 ($/ft2) Based on 160' X 40 external $1.5 million n (C.B.&I.) 10/19/04

22 rface Area (1642 sq m) M Water/Foam lution M Foam ncentrate tal Volume Of Foam ncentrate 65 min lume ls) lue of Contents ss sec.) nk Cost * tal Loss ncentrate Cost hr.) ncentrate Cost sec.) tential Hours of rning (10,705 lpm) (321 lpm) (20,870 litres) 206, $ 10,854, $ $ 1,160, $ 12,014, $ 81, $

23 Fire Protection Vs. Investments mp Cost (Based on $25.00/Gallon) $ 70, n Cost (Based On $12.00/Gallon $ 33, ncentrate Cost $ 88, prox Extinguishment Cost $ 192, rcentage of Investment Of Sample Tank 16.0% mber of like tanks 7 lue Of Investment For All Tanks $ 84,104, rcentage Of Investment For All Tanks. 2.3% HOW MANY TANKS & WHAT YOUR FACILITY? 70+ = 0.13%

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26 SUPPORT AVAILABLE FROM WILLIAMS FIRE & HAZARD CONTROL INC / 365 TELE CONFERENCE / 365 EQUIPMENT AND TOTAL INCIDENT CONTROL SUPPORT Heavy lift air support available 4 hours Texas /365 TECHNICAL ON SITE SUPPORT TRAVEL TIME CONSIDERATION Example UK SPAIN 2 hour securing plane 3 hour flight & clearance 1+ hour airport to site Incident duration 41 hours O DATE OVER 300 STAGE 2 & 3 RESPONSES WORLDWIDE

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29 cident one RION's NARCO REFINERY 83 METRE BLENDED GASOLENE TANK FIRE ne 7 th Ignition 37 WF&HC notified 00 WF&HC lead personnel en route 30 WF&HC equipment en-route 00WF&HC lead personnel on site Single 83 metre blended Gasoline tank 30 Deployment of Big Foot & Ambassador 00 12,000 Gpm via 5inch hose established 00 Foam tankers and tote trailers positioned 0030 Foam operations fully set up 0132 Foam attack commenced Big Foot & Ambassador from Louisiana mutual aid group 0157 Flame collapse 0237 Fire extinguished 0237 Vapour suppression continues 0530 WF&HC secure scene and hand over to refinery personnel Extinguishment Time: 65 Minutes Product Remaining After Extinguishment : 6,000,000 Gallons 23,000,000 litres

30 Incident two: REPSOL Puertollano 14 th -16 th August 2003 ident approx t call WF&HC 1900 quest from RESOL 2130 rive Madrid airport 0330 rive Puertollano 0500 tuation upon arrival Major explosion 7 fatalities 6 tanks alight 4 pressure fires Water pressure 1.5 bar Adjacent shpere cooling effected mediately commenced Cooling operations on pressure fires 0530 anks extiguished ` 0700 maining 2 tanks 0730 able to locate sources of pressure fires 0930 nk earth bund wall breached 1530 nk with adj. pressure fire unable to dissipate heat 1400 nk ignited and allowed to burn 1545 / 1930 jacent slops tank re-ignited from above tank 1630 / 1645 st pressure fire source located and extinguished 2015 d & 3 rd pressure fire source located and extinguished 2145 and major pressure fire partial source located and fire duced to 50% 2330 F&HC retired for 3 hour Rest 0030 al pressure fire source located and extinguished 0230 F&HC return 3 tanks re-ignited during rest period st tank fires extinguished 2 nd time 0730 e declared fully extinguished 0745 Post extinguishment WF&HC advised Refinery fire department on control procedures for next 12, 24 hours left site 1130 hrs 16 th August

31 It s s a chain only as strong as its weakest link Water Training Foam Monitors Application rate Command/Management Get it right and the chain is strong Any weak links and the chain is weak

32 STRONG LINK DAS ISLAND, UAE 36 inch fire 16 bar, 24 inch risers 6 x 6 inch outlet manifolds every 50 metres round tank farm CEYHAN TERMINAL TURKEY 24 inch ring fire 14 bar each hydrant manifold around tank farm comprising 6 x 12 inch risers with total of 18 x 6 inch outlets and 6 x 4 inch outlets per manifold total approx 16 manifolds ( 7 tanks )

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35 WILLIAMS FIRE & HAZARD CONTROL INC. ank Diameter Minimum application rate STRONG LINK p to 150 ft (1-45 m) 0.16 Gpm Lpm 51 ft 200 ft (46-61 m) 0.18 Gpm Lpm 01ft 250 ft (61-76 m) 0.20 Gpm Lpm 51ft 300ft (77-91 m) 0.22 Gpm Lpm 10 ft + (92m +) 0.25 Gpm Lpm NFPA WEAK LINK 0.16 Gpm (6.5 Lpm)

36 API Test Top Two Concentrates Extinguishment Time in Seconds Heptane Octane Gasoline = STRONG LINKS Octane Gasohol Isopropanol Octane 1%

37 PROPORTIONING ISSUES 3% - 1% Cost of Concentrate Comparison

38 IF THIS IS YOUR SYSTEM PREPARE FOR A NIGHTMARE

39 INPUT -5 GALLONS (20 LITRES) PER MIN OUTPUT GALLON ( 900 LITRES) PER MIN!! = 48 PEOPLE EMPTYIN FOAM DRUMS

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44 U.S. Dollars metre tank fire NARCO % Calculated Cost 3%

45 Aspirating nozzle WEAK LINK

46 STRONG LINK Non Aspirating nozzles

47 STRONG LINKS MONITOR SELECTION OPTIONS

48 STRONG LINK Big Guns mbassador monitor Big Foot monitor

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51 FOAM APPLICATION RATES Tank Diameter Minimum application rate Up to 150 ft (1-45 m) 0.16 Gpm -6.5 Lpm 151 ft 200 ft (46-61 m)0.18 Gpm -7.3 Lpm 201ft 250 ft (61-76 m) 0.20 Gpm -8.1 Lpm 251ft 300ft (77-91 m) 0.22 Gpm -9.0 Lpm 310 ft + (92m +) 0.25 Gpm Lpm

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53 How are you prepared if it happens?

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62 Some of the facilities in UK & EUROPE that are prepared P UK P AMSTERDAM ONOCO UK R UK MICORP UK SO UK OW CHEMICALS UK P SCOTLAND ASF GERMANY SO GERMANY AYERNOIL GERMANY IRO GERMANY ERO CZECH REPUBLIC AVONAFT SLOVAKIA EPSOL SPAIN EPSA SPAIN EPSOL TENERIFE PRAS TURKEY P/BTC TURKEY NTWERP FIRE DEPT ELL GERMANY P CEYHAN TURKEY

63 PROVEN IN THE HEAT OF THE BATTLE Why not go with the Best??? 24 / 365 proven Pre, during & post Incident support Proven equipment Proven technologies Proven foam concentrate Thunderstorm Proven safety record WILLIAMS FIRE & HAZARD CONTROL INC. 80+ FULL SURFACE TANK FIRES EXTINGUISHED TO DATE 100% record

64 WILLIAMS FIRE & HAZARD CONTROL INC. WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU