You only have to watch accident investigation videos such as the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's Filling Blind video to understand the importance of pressure control and overfill prevention strategies for storage tanks in oil & gas liquids production, refining and...
Tank Gauging
Continuous Floating Roof Tank Condition Monitoring
Floating roofs are used on storage tanks to minimize vapor space between the top of the tank and the level of the liquid, typically a petroleum-based product, inside the tank. Per the External floating roof tank Wikipedia entry: The roof rises and falls with the...
Engineer’s Guide to Tank Gauging
Tank gauging is the process of measuring liquids in storage tanks to determine the volume and mass of the liquid. Typically, these measurements include level, temperature and pressure. A new user guide, The Engineer's Guide To Tank Gauging is available to request for...
Improving Well Pad Lease Tank Oil Custody Transfer
Onshore oil & gas well pads have long used small lease tanks to hold the crude oil before transferring to be hauled away, typically by crude hauling trucks. Traditionally, this custody transfer process has involved operators climbing up the lease tanks, opening...
Remote and Continuous Tank Floating Roof Monitoring
As oil & gas supplies continue to exceed demand and the need to store crude oil, natural gas liquids and other petroleum-based products increases, storage tanks remain critical elements in the global supply chain. In a Tank Storage magazine article, Stay Afloat...
Safeguarding Against Tank Overfills
When storage tanks overflow they can create safety hazards, environmental issues, facility damage and reputation loss. It is critical to have an effective overfill prevention strategy. In this quick, 2:34 video, Overfill prevention solutions help safeguard operations,...
Cures for Common Tank Gauging Problems
Accurately knowing the level in liquid storage tanks is not only important from a safety standpoint, it's important to know for accounting, finance, and sales perspective. Accurate and reliable tank gauging systems can improve the performance of the oil & gas,...
Automatic Gauging for Onshore Oil and Gas Small Lease Tanks
Author: Michael Machuca Manual tank gauging is very prevalent in onshore oil and gas facilities located in the United States. It is viewed as a low-cost, effective solution to manage tank inventory and custody transfer measurements. The API 18.1 standard governs the...
7 Mistakes in Choosing a Tank Gauging System
While the Emerson Exchange conference unfolds this week in Brussels, the Tank World Expo is happening in Dubai. I wanted to share this post from Rajagopal-Kittu from this event. Author: Rajagopal-Kittu Whether you own a small tank farm or are managing huge, multiple...
Manual Level Gauging of Hydrocarbon Production Tanks
An NPR article, Mysterious Death Reveals Risk in Federal Oil Field Rules, highlights a big problem with rules by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management pertaining to manual tank level gauging. The article's author writes: On a cold night in January 2012, Dustin Bergsing...
Tank Overfill Multiple Protection Layers
Moving and storing hydrocarbons and other volatile fluids in tank farms and bulk liquid storage facilities require well-designed and functioning measurement and safety systems. In a Tank Storage magazine article, The Critical First Line Of Defence Against Overfills,...
Helping Develop and Support Industry Standards
Trade associations play an important role in setting standards for their industry. A great example is the American Petroleum Institute (API). Just a sampling of important standards we've discussed here on the blog includes API 670 – Machinery Protection, API 682 –...
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