Fuel service

Delivering fuel to various parts of Central Africa is not for the faint of heart, but a small Fort Myers-based company held a critical part.

Challenging road and weather conditions means fuel shipped into African ports and transported to gas stations inland can degrade and foul up engine injection systems. With 2,000 gas stations spread across Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia, Oilcom needed to make sure its fuel products arrived at their destination without decomposing into sediment, sludge and acid.

Faced with that challenge, executives with Tanzania-based Oilcom visited a small Fort Myers company in February 2012 that made devices under the brand name Algae-X to keep that natural degradation process from occurring.