Safcor Panalpina cooks with oil and gas

FOR SAFCOR Panalpina there was nothing abnormal about the movement of bulk storage and mixing tanks from Durban to Port Gentil in Gabon – each with a diameter of 4 .80 metres and 15 metres long. Police escorts and road clearances by Telkom and Eskom were all in a day’s work, says business development manager, oil and gas, Kay Engelmann. “Oil companies and their subcontractors operating in East and West Africa are becoming increasingly confident about the local supply of specialised and abnormal cargo in close proximity to their drilling operations,” he told FTW.