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Storage tank

Meaning in oil, gas & mining, with examples

nounCore term

In oil, gas & mining, storage tank means: A large container, usually a round steel tank, used to hold crude oil, fuels, water or chemicals at a terminal, refinery or production site.

In Turkish: depolama tankı, tank

How it is used

A tank farm holds many storage tanks; floating-roof tanks are used for crude and gasoline to reduce vapour losses. Operators talk about tank capacity, tank level, gauging and bunds (walls around tanks that hold spills).

Example sentences

  1. The terminal has twelve storage tanks with a total capacity of one million barrels.

  2. Water was drained from the bottom of the crude storage tank.

Common collocations

  • tank farm
  • floating-roof tank
  • tank capacity
  • tank level
  • tank gauging
  • pipelineA long line of connected pipes, often buried or laid on the seabed, used to carry oil, gas, water or slurry over long distances.
  • throughputThe amount of material that passes through a pipeline, plant or terminal in a given period, such as barrels per day or tonnes per hour.
  • LNGShort for liquefied natural gas: natural gas cooled to about minus 162°C so it becomes a liquid that takes up around 600 times less space and can be shipped by tanker.
  • refineryAn industrial plant where crude oil is heated, separated and chemically changed to make products such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, LPG and asphalt.

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