The bulk fuel terminal located at Mayfield and owned by Stolthaven will more than double capacity if the company’s recent application for expansion is approved.

The $50 million bulk liquid storage facility is currently approved for a throughput of 400 million litres, an increase on the original approval of 300 million litres. Stolthaven have applied to the State Government to increase throughput to more than 1 billion litres of fuel per year.

This constitutes a major expansion to the Mayfield site located at the old BHP steelworks and involves fuels from bulk tankers being sent via a pipeline to above ground storage tanks. The reasons put forward for the expansion include meeting the demand in the mining and retail sectors.