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A consequence of the above factors is that developing an aquifer storage facility is usually time consuming and expensive. Aquifers are generally the least desirable and most expensive type of natural gas storage facility. Total Deliverability from Natural Gas Storage by Type of Facility, 1998, 2005, 2008. [3]
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System cuts through Alaska's wilderness. Special heat exchanger supports protect the Permafrost from melting. Pipelines are used to transport oil from wells to refineries and storage facilities, and are viewed as the most cost efficient way to move oil on land. [3]
An oil terminal (also called a tank farm, tankfarm, oil installation or oil depot) is an industrial facility for the storage of oil, petroleum and petrochemical products, and from which these products are transported to end users or other storage facilities. [1]
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Petroleum refinery in Anacortes, Washington, United States. Petroleum refining processes are the chemical engineering processes and other facilities used in petroleum refineries (also referred to as oil refineries) to transform crude oil into useful products such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), gasoline or petrol, kerosene, jet fuel, diesel oil and fuel oils.
Cylindrical fuel storage tank with fixed roof and internal floating roof. Capacity approx 2,000,000 litres. The word "tank" originally meant "artificial lake" and came from India, perhaps via Portuguese tanque. It may have some connection with: Some Indian language words similar to "tak" or "tank" and meaning "reservoir for water".
The diagram depicts only one of the literally hundreds of different oil refinery configurations. The diagram also does not include any of the usual refinery facilities providing utilities such as steam, cooling water, and electric power as well as storage tanks for crude oil feedstock and for intermediate products and end products. [1] [56] [57 ...
The La Goleta Gas Field (also known as the Goleta Gas Field and La Goleta Storage Field) is a natural gas field in unincorporated Santa Barbara County, California, adjacent to the city of Goleta. Discovered in 1929, and first put into production in 1932, it has been in continuous use ever since, producing approximately 12 billion cubic feet of ...