Insights
27 Mar 2019
By Russell Dupuy
Is your fuel management system working for you?
Whenever I ask the question “do you understand your fuel variance?”, the most common answer I get is “yes”. Unfortunately, that “yes” usually only means “somewhat” or “kind of”. Understanding your fuel variance is more than just recording a variance in stock. Knowing you have fuel variance is one thing, understanding what is causing it is another. It can be ...
Fuel station maintenance: gain visibility over breakage and errors
There’s no denying that fuel station maintenance, including the upkeep of pumps, tanks, and other equipment, can be a very taxing process. Like any industry with machinery ...
Calibrating ATG Accuracy
We are often asked the question: “Which Automatic Tank Gauge is more accurate?” With so many ATG brand options available, such as Veeder-Root, OPW, Hectronic, Franklin and other ...
How can I improve my fuel purchasing process?
Site Managers often make fuel purchasing decisions based off their gut-feeling due to a lack of available tank data. When you order fuel for your site, are you ...
Fuelsuite announced as finalist in 2017 Victorian Premier’s Sustainability Awards
Media release, 14 September 2017 Carrum Downs company Environmental Monitoring Solutions Pty Ltd [EMS] has been announced as a finalist in the Small and Medium Enterprises category in this year’...
Keep your customers and employees safe with Fuelsuite
We don’t often associate refrigeration and beverage dispensing machines with retail petroleum risk management. However, two issues present risk when thinking about the typical petrol convenience store: ...
Future of retail petroleum automation
Historically, from the 1900s to 1980’s, the typical retail petrol station required only the most basic components to fill consumers vehicles, consisting primarily of tanks, piping, dispensers, a ...
Is fuel theft during transport a problem for you?
Fuel theft from petroleum tankers in transit or during border delays is, according to a recent study, an extremely significant problem for many petroleum marketers. This is not ...
How can I protect my sites from fuel pricing errors?
Recent changes to Australian fuel pricing laws have shaken the petroleum retail industry. Fuel retailers in NSW Australia are now legally required to report fuel prices to the ...
Is retail fuel theft a problem for you?
Petroleum retailers are challenged with fuel theft on a daily basis, where the focus is primarily on “drive-offs”, or what is often referred to as external theft. Prepayment ...
Is it really a valid Emergency Stop alarm?
Do you know how often your Emergency Stop (E-Stop) alarm is activated, reset or tested to confirm it actually works? A few of our clients needed to know ...
Petrol station automation
Is a lack of automation harming your retail petroleum enterprise? Recently, I was invited to present at the Institute of Engineers Australia speaking event, ‘Retail Petroleum a case ...
Would your fuel site pass a surprise compliance audit?
To ensure fuel sites are compliant and that their leak prevention measures are working, the EPA has been conducting random on-site audits. In the two years since the ...
Six simple ways to avoid inconclusive status calls on SIR reports
Don’t let unknown or inconclusive inventory data put your site at risk Building a complete picture of your site’s operating environment doesn’t have to be ...
How Fuelsuite revolutionised fuel management for Viva Energy
The management of fuel stocking, storing, monitoring, and reporting can be complicated and time consuming work, irrespective of whether you are a small site owner or have hundreds ...
5 tips to get accurate SIR data
You’ve just received your monthly SIR Report and your tank has not passed. The SIR data results say the tank is losing fuel. If you’ve been ...
Accurate results require accurate data
Would you compare oranges to apples? Fuel sales and dip readings collected for SIR Analysis are recorded at ambient temperature, so it makes sense to use delivery volumes ...
Are fuel giveaways hurting your business?
The customers might have been laughing, but it was no funny business for our client when their service station gave away 12,000L of fuel in under 2 months. Our ...
Artificial Intelligence or Sophisticated Software?
Ever think your computer software knows something you don’t? EMS’s environmental management program Greenscan seemed to have a mind of its own when it picked up ...
Real time monitoring – protecting clients underground fuel assets
Fuelsuite detects another critical event – ruptured flexible pipe within a manway. Whilst the Automatic Tank Gauge [ATG] electronic line leak detection did not detect the leak, Fuelsuite’s ...
Fuelsuite supports major Automatic Tank Gauges brands
Whether you operate 25 or 1,000 retail or commercial fueling facilities, Fuelsuite has your Fuel Risk Management, Fuel Operations and Fuel Asset Management covered. Fuelsuite now supports direct interfacing with ...