FLOATING a 900 tonne steel dome roof 38 metres off the ground using nothing but air is something unique for Gladstone. The roof is the first to be placed into position across the three projects on ...

External floating single-roof tanks should not be used to store gasoline in hot regions unless the deck plate's thickness exceeds 10 mm and it has been treated with an anti-corrosion coating. Solar ...

At 12:48 A.M. on Sunday, July 13, 2010, lightning struck an 80-foot-diameter above-ground bulk storage tank at the Colonial Pipeline Co. facility in Greensboro, NC. Tank 819 was a "floating roof" ...

As Hurricane Harvey swept across the Houston area, torrential waves of rain built on top of crude oil storage tanks at Valero Energy's Houston refinery, causing one of the roofs that float atop the ...

The American Petroleum Institute (API) Standard 650, Welded Steel Tanks for Oil Storage, provides design rules for petroleum storage tanks. These rules are intended to provide reasonable margins ...