Oil depot

Tank farm are systems in which fuel and / or fuel can be saved. They consist of a plurality of tanks in which products such as motor gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel, heavy fuel oil, naphtha, liquefied natural gas, vegetable oil, alcohol be stored.

Tank farm to be built for the intermediate storage of petroleum in oil extraction in petroleum refineries, for the chemical industry and in the markets for oil and chemical products. Your loading and unloading is carried by ships, train ( tank car ), truck or by pipeline. Tank farms contribute to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Types of tank farms

Storage tanks can be designed above ground or below ground. The largest -scale underground storage tanks in the world with more than 300,000 cubic meters of capacity is the tank farm Farge in Bremen.