DESC Americas (DESC-AM)
Defense Energy Support Center-Americas (DESC-A) is the DESC agent for bulk fuel and additive distribution in the continental United States and selected overseas locations. DESC-A’s area of responsibility (AOR) extends to Central and South America, the Caribbean,
Greenland, Iceland and the Azores, and includes support to CONUS war fighting CINCS such as USACOM, USSOUTHCOM and SOCOM.
DESC-Americas’ mission is to provide uninterrupted fuel support to its customers in peace and war—providing quality fuel, in the right place and quantity, at the right time. Core organizational specialties include inventory and transportation management, facilities management and quality surveillance. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, DESC-A fuels the forces across the country. From coast to coast, DESC-A ships about 95 million barrels of fuel each year, supporting over 425 customers from 28 Defense Fuel Support Points and 36 tariff terminals.
Common carrier pipelines provide high-volume, economical transportation from strategic refineries, primarily on the West and Gulf Coasts, to customers and intermediate terminals as far north as Grand Forks, North Dakota, and east to Norfolk, Virginia. Other significant transportation requirements are met by barge, tank truck, rail car and marine tanker.
DESC-Americas serves as the Center’s liaison with its customers. Local customer support is provided through DESC-A’s four offices: DESC-Los Angeles, which provides fuel to customers in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Nevada; DESC-Houston, which provides fuel to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas (resupply only), Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, and oversight of fuel supply for Puerto Rico, Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay, Panama, Central America and South America; DESC-St. Louis, whose AOR is Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming, Utah and Montana; and DESC-Ft. Dix, which oversees North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont as well as oversight for Greenland, Iceland and the Azores.
Through its four offices and 28 Quality Surveillance Residencies, DESC-A provides daily face-to-face interaction with its customers, the petroleum industry and the carrier industry. The Military Services are accustomed to the “one-stop shopping” advantage they get by contacting the office in their area—one office that coordinates all quality, transportation, inventory, accounting and supply actions.
