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Tank farm at McMurdo Station, Antarctica 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 ]
The design consists of a series of centre and wing tanks that are divided by horizontal bulkheads. The upper wing tanks form ballast tanks and act as emergency receiver tanks for cargo should the lower tanks be fractured. The lower tanks are connected to these ballast tanks by non-return valves.
An area of a plant or facility with numerous storage tanks is sometimes called a tank farm, especially at an oil depot. Fluid systems for carrying liquids and gases include piping and tubing of various diameter sizes, various types of valves for controlling or stopping flow, pumps for moving or pressurizing liquid, and compressors for ...
The tank farm's location has been controversial since the 1989/1990 eruption of Mount Redoubt, when the facility was flooded by lahars. [1] Concerns were renewed during the 2009 eruptions of Redoubt. [2] Dikes built after the 89/90 eruptions have kept the 2009 flooding away from the tanks, but an adjacent aircraft hangar and runway were damaged ...
Associated infrastructure owned by Tazama in Tanzania, includes the tank farm in Dar es Salaam consisting of six storage tanks onshore, which comprise three tanks of 36,000 cubic meters (36,000,000 L) capacity combined and three tanks of combined capacity of 41,000 cubic meters (41,000,000 L).
Washington River Protection Solutions, owned by Amentum and Atkins, now holds the contract for tank farm work. In July 2023 after the first award to H2C was contested, DOE announced that its ...
It has 82 storage tanks and stores up to 19 million barrels of crude oil, servicing five major incoming as well as five major outgoing pipelines. [1] It has more than 50 storage tanks [ 2 ] and facilitates the transport of oil through pipelines to refineries in various parts of the United States.
Tank farm may refer to the: Alternate name for an oil terminal or oil depot, a facility for storage of liquid petroleum products or petrochemicals; Tank Farm, also known as 'Tuff Crater', a volcanic crater in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand; Western Reclamation, also known as the 'Tank Farm', on the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New ...