Oil tank fabrication

Safe industrial-scale storage of oil and its products

An oil tank is designed to store crude oil or petroleum products at industrial scale, and it must perform reliably against corrosion from sulphur compounds, environmental loads and swings in temperature and pressure. The roof type (fixed or floating), shell thickness and safety systems are chosen according to the product and the storage capacity.

Oil tank fabrication
Service
Crude oil or petroleum products
Roof type
Fixed or floating, by product
Shell material
Corrosion-resistant steel plate
Safety extras
Bund wall, lightning protection, earthing

Key features

Designed for the petroleum product and its corrosiveness
Fixed or floating roof chosen by volatility
Bund wall designed to contain spills
Lightning protection and earthing system
Standard safety spacing between tanks
Coordinated with the project's fire-fighting system
Fixed-roof oil tank designed to API 650

Technical details

Safety requirements for oil tanks include a bund wall (dyke) to contain any spill, a suitable fire-fighting system, lightning protection and earthing to discharge static electricity, and standard safety distances between neighbouring tanks.

Drawing on its experience in designing and building storage tanks, Behineh Ab designs and builds oil tanks for your product, capacity and project safety requirements.

Technical specifications

Service
Crude oil or petroleum products
Roof type
Fixed or floating, by product
Shell material
Corrosion-resistant steel plate
Safety extras
Bund wall, lightning protection, earthing
Design basis
API 650 principles
Capacity
To suit the refinery or fuel depot

Fixed roof or floating roof: choosing by product

For heavy, low-volatility products such as fuel oil, a fixed-roof tank is the more economical choice because evaporation losses are negligible. For volatile products such as gasoline and naphtha, a floating roof reduces the vapour space between roof and liquid, noticeably cutting evaporation losses and fire risk.

Shell thickness calculation to API 650

The thickness of each shell course of an oil tank is usually calculated by the one-foot or variable-design-point method of API 650. These methods take into account the hydrostatic pressure at the bottom of each course, the allowable stress of the steel and the joint efficiency, and the thickness of each course decreases from the bottom up.

Required safety systems for oil tanks

A bund wall around the tank contains any spill and should usually hold at least the volume of the main tank. An earthing system prevents static charge from building up (which could cause a spark), and fixed or semi-fixed fire-fighting equipment is required for a fast response to fire.

Applications and industries

Oil refineries
Oil refineries
Oil storage and export terminals
Oil storage and export terminals
Petroleum product distributors
Petroleum product distributors
Industrial fuel depots
Industrial fuel depots
Petrochemical units
Petrochemical units
Large-scale fuelling stations
Large-scale fuelling stations

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