Manama, Apr. 23 (BNA): Bapco Refining released the following statement regarding updates on the oil tank leak situation: "Bapco Refining would like to report that the damaged floating roof of one of ...

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 ...

Perhaps of greater consequence, the rule pertains to another type of tank that has a floating roof, which rises and falls like a piston as it’s filled with or emptied of petroleum products.

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.