Expeditionary Bulk Fuel Solutions
Global Leader in Expeditionary Fuel Systems.
Deployable bulk fuel solutions tailored to meet agile operational demands.
Establish, sustain, and manage mission-critical fuel supply in remote, austere, and contested environments with deployable and re-deployable infrastructure.
Fuel solutions for remote and challenging environments
World Fuel designs and engineers expeditionary fuel solutions tailored to operational requirements. Connecting your fuel supply to rapidly deployable bulk fuel systems and military infrastructure wherever you need.
We have deep expertise in fuel supply and fuel operations for military across the Indo-Pacific, Afghanistan, and Europe. Our team know the complexity of fuel operations in contested and degraded environments.
From initial entry to forward refuelling, our bulk fuel storage, distribution and sustainment can provide temporary, semi-permanent, or enduring fuel storage that is scaled to suit mission demand.
Working in these environments requires deep knowledge of military operational needs and processes. We work with government and defence to tailor expeditionary fuel solutions. We assess fuel requirements, transportation, storage capabilities, distribution points, personnel, quality controls, geography, and reporting requirements.
Deployable fuel systems and equipment
Sub-systems for modular mission requirements.
Receive, store, and distribute fuel from the point of entry.
The beach storage system is a rapidly deployable, modular bulk fuel capability designed to support amphibious, littoral, and maritime logistics operations. The system provides the operational agility to receive, store, manage, and distribute bulk fuel at the beachhead, enabling force insertion, sustainment, and operational reach from the point of entry.
Support for rotary wing aviation operations
The Refuelling Point Aviation (RPA), also known as a Forward Arming and Refuelling Point (FARP), is a rapidly deployable, modular fuel distribution system that enables on-shore sustainment operations, supporting ground operations in forward and expeditionary environments and enabling assets to remain closer to the battlespace and maximise time on station.
Expand tactical sites to logistics hubs for land vehicles
Our BFI system ensures fuel infrastructure can be rapidly set up wherever operational requirements dictate, from dispersed tactical sites through to major theatre sustainment hubs.
The system provides the capability to receive, store, manage, and distribute bulk fuel, ensuring sustained operational reach and combat endurance in both austere and contested environments.
Support force fixed wing refuelling and forward movement.
The APOD Bulk Fuel Installation (BFI) is a rapidly deployable, modular fuel storage and distribution system designed to enable air-bridge operations.
The system provides the ability to receive, store, manage, and distribute bulk aviation fuel, enabling force projection and expeditionary basing across the theatre of operations.
Support force reception and onward movement
Sustain force reception and onward movement through a critical air logistics node. An Aerial Port of Debarkation Bulk Fuel Installation connects high-capacity aviation fuel storage and distribution with tactical and strategic airlift operations. The illustrated configuration provides pumping capacity of 2,000 liters per minute with internal redundancy, high-pressure underwing refueling, fuel-quantity monitoring, and continuous day and night operation.
Supporting mission readiness
Deploy modular tactical fuel systems
Adjust to meet operating requirements
Connect defence and fuel logistics
Support inter-operability
Scalable mission support
From initial entry to an operational air bridge
Experience in agile basing operations, designed to support mission readiness.
Separate deployable sub-systems can be connected to form a larger logistics network. Beach storage and forward aviation refuelling points (FARPs) or RPAs support initial entry to remote and challenging locations. Inland Bulk Fuel Installations connect beachheads to carry the fuel supply forward. To support operational effectiveness, Aerial Ports of Debarkation (APODs) can be connected using land pipelines to support and sustain larger forces, creating an air bridge.
This illustrates one possible scenario of how World Fuel supports rapid deployment of fuel to challenging operational areas.
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Example deployment configurations
45 minutes
RPA/FARP establishment
Four-point expeditionary refueling configuration.
24-48 hours
Bulk Fuel Installation establishment
Example timeframe, dependent on the mission profile and system configuration.
2,000 LPM
Example high-throughput pumping capacity
Specified for selected Beach Storage, Bulk Fuel Installation, and APOD configurations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Key considerations when evaluating deployable fuel infrastructure, mobilisation, scalability, and ongoing sustainment.
Expeditionary fuel solutions combine deployable fuel systems, fuel storage and distribution systems, and operational support for remote fuel operations. They support defence and government fuel requirements in remote, austere, or rapidly changing environments, with the system components defined by the mission profile, location, fuel demand, transport constraints, available infrastructure, and sustainment requirements.
Understanding of the mission objectives, operating locations, fuel types and specifications, expected demand, deployment timeline, storage and distribution needs, available infrastructure, transport constraints, staffing assumptions, interoperability requirements, and quality, security, data, and reporting requirements are all crucial to delivering the appropriate expeditionary fuel system.
Yes. Systems can scale from forward aviation refuelling points and beach storage through Bulk Fuel Installations and APOD fuel hubs. Storage, throughput, dispensing points, staffing, and transportation interfaces can be configured as the mission progresses.
The systems are designed for remote, austere, and demanding conditions. Site access, temperature, altitude, environmental controls, survivability, security, and force-protection responsibilities must be assessed for each deployment. The fuel system does not replace the customer’s required security or force-protection measures.
Depending on the requirement and location, World Fuel can integrate fuel acquisition, transportation, storage, distribution, equipment, quality management, quantity monitoring, fuel accounting, and operational support. Responsibilities, availability, commercial terms, and local execution are confirmed during solution design.
Why World Fuel
Proven expeditionary fuel experience
World Fuel combines expeditionary infrastructure and deployment capability with global fuel sourcing, logistics, quality, and operational experience. Our military fuel support experience includes U.S. government, NATO member, coalition, humanitarian, and rapid-deployment requirements, along with experience supporting the Australian Defence Force and delivering the JP8190 Bulk Fuel contract.
World Fuel operates across more than 200 countries and territories. That enterprise reach provides access to supply relationships and local market knowledge, while each expeditionary requirement is validated against its location, security environment, product needs, and logistics plan.
Experience and reliability you can count on, locally and globally.
200 +
Countries and territories within World Fuel's enterprise reach
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