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One of the UK’s leading bulk liquid storage companies has put in place a new strategic growth plan and unveiled a name change. UM Terminals managing director Bryan Davies explains.
UNTIL quite recently, UM Terminals was known as UM Storage. But the Liverpool, UK-headquartered business has ambitious growth plans and felt that their old name did not do full justice to today’s…
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Five essential pillars to decrease maintenance costs and increase tank availability
EVEN in the best of times, those who lead tank storage facilities continue to search for practical, attainable solutions for maximising availability while keeping a firm control on maintenance costs. During the unusual circumstances of 2020, with storage capacity at a premium, tank operators are making…
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A spill at a tank terminal is most likely to be discovered by an employee, and if they are properly trained, the spill response can be much faster
TIME is a priceless commodity. It seems that this precious resource is being stretched further and further these days. Between natural disasters, labour shortages and worldwide pandemics, most people are finding the need to do more with less. One…
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A3D’s laser scanning technology offers an innovative way to prepare piping and instrumentation diagrams to support your operations
A3D embarked on a journey eight ears ago using 3D laser scan data to design a range of applications specifically tailored to operators of process installations. Developed around a strong focus on clients’ operational needs. The company’s successful business…
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The American Chemistry Council explains the background behind its Chemical Facility Safety Initiative
SAFETY is an area close to the heart of any tank farm operator, but with multiple and changing assessment tools, standards, regulations, and guidelines, it can be a little perplexing. In 2019, following a series of high-profile chemical facility safety incidents in the Houston, Texas, region,…
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3D scanning equipment is a great tool, but it can do much more than just find corrosion or cracks
3D SCANNING manufacturers originally set their sights on the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, with an emphasis towards surveyors and construction engineers, for the manufacturing industry as a tool for use in reverse-engineering and prototyping, and archaeologists and…
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Peter Lidiak, vice president of regulatory affairs, International Liquid Terminals Association (ILTA), looks at the latest US standards
SECURITY and safety are two core values of bulk liquid terminal operators. As part of the critical infrastructure community, bulk liquid terminals must pay close attention to the safety of not only their workers and contractors but also the communities in which…
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The only things rising are bankruptcies and distressed asset sales in the US shale industry
WE’VE never had a downturn like this, that affected shale on a global basis as much as this has,’ says Daniel Lippe, managing partner at Petral Consulting Company in Houston, Texas. ‘Never in 100 years has demand suddenly evaporated as it did in March of 2020.’
COVID-19 quarantines kept cars in…
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Why three former Oiltanking colleagues decided to launch Tivoli Midstream during a global pandemic.
IN JULY 2020, three former Oiltanking colleagues and industry veterans announced that they had set up a new midstream, logistics and services company, Tivoli Midstream. Rance Fromme, Rick Adams and William Brod have over 70 years of experience between
them, and decided the time was right to go…
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Easton Energy CEO Joel McComas tells Tank Storage Magazine about salt
caverns and oil storage in Texas
HYDROCARBON storage comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes – huge tanks, small tanks, in barrels, on ships, even in railway wagons and pipelines in recent months – but one of the biggest by capacity is in underground salt caverns.
Underground salt caverns are created through a process…
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ON 27 May 2020, Tank Storage Magazine began a new venture – online professional seminars from industry experts. The first one, entitled ‘Accelerate the Future of Your Terminal, Today’, was given by John Colpo, Principal Analyst, Oil and Gas, at Honeywell. ‘We partnered with Tank Storage Magazine to help us maximise our reach with terminal operators around the globe – they covered all…
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LNG is the fastest-growing gas supply source in the world due to two crucial economic and environmental factors. On the one hand, LNG has a very attractive price and on the other hand – in terms of sustainability – clean burning gas produces significantly fewer emissions than oil and coal and has the lowest environmental impact amongst fossil fuels. LNG produces 25% less carbon when used in…
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IN PART 1, we established a foundation for determining what a corrosion rate is and how it is used to establish tank internal inspection intervals. In this part we provide the methodology for using survival analysis (Sidebar 1) to properly quantify the useful tank bottom life which may then be applied to managing the inspection protocols of tank populations.
[SIDEBAR 1: SURVIVAL…
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ACCORDING to the EIA’s most recent forecasts, global oil consumption will average 92.6 million bpd in 2020, down 8.1 million bpd from 2019. This decline comes from reduced travel and diminished industrial activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the decline in consumption has been immediate, the production and distribution chains (extraction, separation, transportation, storage, blending…
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THE 650,000 bpd Dangote Refinery, under construction in Lekki, Nigeria, will be the world’s largest single train refinery, when complete. It is large enough to provide Nigeria’s entire domestic need for refined products, as well as products for export.
A big refinery needs a lot of tanks. At present, UAE-based firm ChemieTech of Sharjah is building 155 tanks at the site. Of these, 51 are…
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ROBOT implementation continues to increase globally and the rapid proliferation in robot capabilities – driven by innovations, means that they can do the jobs that are just plain dangerous for people. Not only can robots operate in hazardous environments where humans can’t, but they can also take on the tasks that pose a significant risk to human life.
Over the last year Re-Gen Robotics has…
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THE INDUSTRIAL Internet of Things (IIoT) offers huge benefits to industry. With different parts of a facility connected centrally, data on temperature, pressure, inputs, outputs, flow and many more aspects can be gathered and monitored in real time, offering insights into plant performance, safety, and efficiency. This allows operators to make informed decisions on process improvements,…
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HIGH quality industrial valve components are becoming an increasingly important driver in the push for maximum operational efficiency. Exposure to extreme conditions, both externally and internally, can result in catastrophic failures due to corrosion, erosion and cavitation, and remain a root cause of depleting valve performance and failures.
For 13 years Provalve has provided specialist valve…
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EARLIER this year Saudi Arabianbased Manifa Petroleum Services was one of the many technology service providers that were tasked with the challenge of partnering with Saudi Aramco to reduce the company’s US$200 million maintenance and turnaround budget by a minimum of 4% over the next two years through 2022.
The company showed that by employing Oreco’s non-man entry closed loop tank cleaning…
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VERITANK, a Houston-based autonomous robotic tank inspection provider, has recently successfully completed a round of non-destructive testing (NDT) on a plate with known manufactured defects that meet the standards of API 653, Annex G.5.1, Qualification Test Plates.
The testing took place at Veritank’s headquarters where the company has installed a high accuracy x,y,z submerged, 7’x 20’…
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