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one night. I had prepared documents to supply bunker fuel to a general cargo ship. It was after midnight as I made my way along the deck to the chief engineer’s office. Suddenly I felt a ‘hand’ on my shoulder and froze. As I turned, I saw a huge elephant tethered under a tarpaulin, with his trunk reaching out to me. He was just being friendly ...
“Safety was important even then. Before starting a bunker I would do an on-site Risk Assessment Procedure with the crew supervisor and he would talk to his men — what we know today as a toolbox talk. Drip trays would be placed because pollution prevention was top priority,” concludes Dieter.
On 14 October 1963, two months ahead of schedule, petrol blending began.
The ‘Blandford’ arriving with 40 000 tonnes of crude oil for the refinery, 18 April 1964.
Powerful jets cut into a bulge in the Bluff, south of Durban, to wash away 2 200 000 cubic yards of earth used to fill in the site on which Africa’s most modern refinery now stands.
Water Tank T 1807 being dragged onto its foundation, 30 November 1967.
A general view of the refinery from the dune, 30 May 1972.
Widening the outfall of the swamp/Reunion Rocks canal, 15 September 1961.
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