25 years of talks and tanks

This year marked 25 years of the Tank Storage Association’s Conference & Exhibition – with an event that promised to be the biggest and best yet With 2026 being 25 years of the Tank Storage Association (TSA)’s Conference & Exhibition, and 20 years hosted at Coventry Arena, this year’s event had a lot to live up to. A last-minute room change (with Coventry City’s pitch sadly now out of sight) didn’t deter around 400 delegates from c-suite executives to operators and technicians converging on the new exhibition hall the morning of 17 September 2026. Faces both new and old in the industry popped up around the space, and many catch-up talks were had before Arun Sriskanda, current TSA president and managing director of Oikos Storage, opened the conference with a rousing speech about global trends in the industry, and how now more than ever it was vital for different areas of the sector to aid each other through geopolitical tensions and the energy transition. The first talk, Ending requirements for the storage sector: how the energy transition and supply security concerns are shaping the future of bulk liquid storage, led by Mark Waddington, CEO of Channoil...