Products
Starain currently supplies 1 500 000 litres of 50ppm diesel per month and owns a 5-truck fleet that ensures quality product and reliable supply at a reasonable price. We are also able to supply on a lease basis Self-Bunded storage units ranging from a 9 000 to a 60 000 litre storage facility.
We transport these products to the desired location of our customers. There is an option available for customers who prefer to collect by themselves. We offer the petroleum products at all the major South African depots through the grid at a reasonable price. The specification of the products is approved by the majors such as Puma, Total, Engen, Independant Petroluem Group, BP and Astron.
Diesel fuel is refined from crude oil and from biomass materials.
Diesel fuel is the common term for the distillate fuel oil sold for use in motor vehicles that use the compression ignition engine named for its inventor, German engineer Rudolf Diesel.
Petroleum products are fuels made from crude oil and hydrocarbons contained in natural gas.
Petroleum products can also be made from coal, natural gas, and biomass.
Petrol is used as fuel for internal-combustion engines.
It is also used as a solvent for oils and fats.
Examples of biofuels include ethanol (often made from corn and sugarcane),
biodiesel (sourced from vegetable oils and liquid animal fats),
green diesel (derived from algae and other plant sources),
and biogas methane (derived from animal manure and other digested organic material).
AVGAS, or aviation gasoline, is used for piston-engine aircraft.
These types of aircraft fly through the rotation of the propellers which generate the thrust.
Jet Fuel is used for aircraft with turbine-engine jets.
These types of aircraft fly with the thrust of expelled air.
Paraffin is widely used as fuel for jet engines and rockets and as a fuel component for diesel and tractor engines.
In past centuries, before electricity was invented, paraffin was used in lamps and lanterns as the main source of lighting.
LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) is a hydrocarbon gas that exists in a liquefied form.
LPG is a colourless, low carbon and highly efficient fuel.
Supplied in two main forms, propane (C3H8) and butane (CâHââ),
LPG has a range of uses â from providing fuel for leisure parks, crop-drying, BBQs, heating homes and much more.
The company has capable and trained personnel in facilitating engagements between organisations and communities relating to socioeconomic, enterprise and supplier development. The dynamism and activism of communities coupled with BBBEE legislation pose a challenge to most organisations that have operations within certain communities thereby necessitating a need for a solution that focuses on sustainable development as described by the KING IV report on corporate governance. Our company through trial and error has already achieved a milestone in this challenging territory