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Despite the added complications of working in a pandemic, 3X Engineering successfully completed a tank repair earlier this year
In July 2020 pipeline repair and protection specialist 3X Engineering was asked to reinforce a tank suffering from severe external corrosion leading to a through wall
defect (a hole measuring 15x15 mm and depth 5 mm).
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All Time’s automatic vertical tank welder provided more productive and efficient welding for a large tank project
Hong kong company All Time, which has a production facility in Shanghai, China, has 20 years of experience in manufacturing specialist tank welding equipment. Its expertise was recently called upon by a major Middle Eastern engineering company, which had been awarded the…
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Mina Kamel, CEO and co-founder of Voliro Airborne Robotics, discusses the revolutionary potential of flying inspection robots for storage tanks
eaking storage tanks cause severe damage to the environment, not to mention asset downtime and reputational risk for asset owners. All these potential risks can be avoided with regular inspections. Yet traditional inspection methods come with their own…
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Arend van Campen and Aimee Cabalo from Tank Terminal Training and TSSI examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on tank storage demand and how it might affect the push towards sustainability
The COVID-19 pandemic unexpectedly and temporarily filled global storage tanks to the brim. Tankers, unable to transport crude and petroleum products profited by being chartered to store even more oil…
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How do you improve your business operations and increase your competitiveness without reducing or eliminating the need for humans?
Bringing humans back into focus to counteract the potential negative effects of Industry 4.0 is one of the core goals at Dutch automation expert Procentec. In fact, designing solutions for technicians working with industrial networks led the company to develop the…
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Rosen’s global market strategy manager Mario Humbert tells Tank Storage Magazine about Rosen’s contribution to the HYREADY partnership to help decarbonise the energy sector
TELL US ABOUT THE HYREADY PARTNERSHIP.
HYREADY is a joint industry project to develop clear engineering guidelines for transmission system operators (TSOs) and distribution system operators (DSOs) to support them…
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Antonio Turiel discusses what the future might hold for the energy sector
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a serious health crisis, and undeniable economic havoc, a toll that will only become fully evident in the coming years. Some consequences will be less evident than others. One of the obvious consequences is the huge, deep impact that it has had on the oil sector.
Since 2013, due to…
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A3D’s new virtual site tours will allow terminal personnel to walk their site, whether it be from their home or workstation
COVID-19 has for many of us, forced changes in our work patterns including that of working from home. To facilitate this, company IT departments have softened their attitudes towards cloud computing methods to facilitate home working. However, for both managers and…
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With an emphasis on enhanced security and safety, the recovering infrastructure in Libya presents a unique opportunity for innovative equipment suppliers
DUring the Arab Spring uprisings much of Libya was devastated. Oil and gas infrastructure including tanks and pipelines became easy targets and many were destroyed.
Fast forward 10 years and the region is slowly being re-built. Oil…
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A unique oceanfront greenfield site is up for sale in the State of Sonora on the west coast of Mexico. The development site consists of 1,297 hectares (3205 acres) of undeveloped land which has direct access to the Sea of Cortez
The site benefits from a substantial amount of existing infrastructure, including large quantities of economical electrical power and natural gas already in place. A…
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Prio supply director Luis Nunes tells Tank Storage Magazine why sustainability and flexibility are so important
Portuguese energy company Prio has sustainability at its core. It began life in 2005 and has grown to become the largest biofuel producer in Portugal, and one of the largest European producers of sustainable green biodiesel from waste raw materials. The company now also has more than…
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Total Solar DG recently installed a solar energy system at Singapore LNG.
Tank Storage Magazine spoke to both firms to find out more
the island nation of Singapore is one of the most densely packed countries in the world, but over the years has gained a reputation for being one of the greenest. Huge efforts have been made to preserve remaining wildlife in reserves and the main city has been…
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After one of the strangest years in living memory, eight storage operators from across the world reflect on 2020 and look at what 2021 might have in store
RUTGER VAN THIEL
CEO, Alkion Terminals 2020 was a very eventful year but also a successful year. 2019 for the Alkion Group was an excellent year and we continued that into 2020, but of course the big difference was the unexpected…
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With an emphasis on enhanced security and safety, the recovering infrastructure in Libya presents a unique opportunity for innovative equipment suppliers
DURING the Arab Spring uprisings much of Libya was devastated. Oil and gas infrastructure including tanks and pipelines became easy targets and many were destroyed.
Fast forward 10 years and the region is slowly being re-built. Oil production…
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A unique oceanfront greenfield site is up for sale in the State of Sonora on the west coast of Mexico. The development site consists of 1,297 hectares (3205 acres) of undeveloped land which has direct access to the Sea of Cortez
THE SITE benefits from a substantial amount of existing infrastructure, including large quantities of economical electrical power and natural gas already in…
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What it takes to implement corrosion prediction of tank bottoms.
IN PART 1, we established a foundation for determining what a corrosion rate is, how care is required in defining a corrosion rate, and how it is used to establish tank internal inspection intervals. In Part 2, we provided the methodology for using survival analysis to properly quantify the useful tank bottom life. Part 3 will look…
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A look at the points raised by Ollie Folayan in Tank Storage Magazine’s October webinar
DIVERSITY and inclusion are buzzwords that seem to be everywhere at the moment. But in a world where differences, at least by many people, are now being celebrated, is the tank storage sector doing enough to encourage people of colour, or women, or people with disabilities, or members of the LGBTQ+…
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Tank Storage Magazine talked to Implico CEO Tim Hoffmeister about ongoing structural reorganisations within the oil and gas industry, the need for a standardised supply chain and the upcoming online check-in for trucks at tank farms.
DIGITALISATION is still on everyone’s lips. What is your understanding of the term ‘digitalisation of the tank storage industry’?
Terminal…
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AP Sensing’s novel solution addresses the need for monitoring storage tanksand pipelines
THE susceptibility of modern-day assets in the oil and gas industry canpose significant challenges. For example, storage tanks are filled with chemicals that are flammable and often explosive, but these tanks can be ten or more years old and geographically located in regions with substantial lightning…
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Hytrans looks at how to choose the right hose, couplings and recovery unit for your needs
INDUSTRIAL firefighting asks for more water and more pressure, and this needs larger hoses and larger pumps. The mobile water supply systems need to be more flexible and more powerful to provide this flow and pressure. However, while flow and pressure are important, they are not the only things that make…
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