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Tank Storage Magazine reflects on the key learnings from another hugely successful StocExpo
Storage terminal professionals descended on Rotterdam on 11 & 12 March for StocExpo’s milestone 20th edition. Held during a pivotal time for the global energy sector, StocExpo 2025 delivered an expanded programme featuring brand new conference streams, live technology demonstrations, and exclusive…
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Stephen Pepper, senior consultant for PFAS programmes at CTEH, explores ways for storage terminals to stay safe and compliant when managing firewater
The management of firewater is an essential and often neglected part of the overall industrial fire protection challenge, especially for facilities using aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) to extinguish flammable liquid fires. Operators of tank…
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CEO of UAB-Online, Hans Bobeldijk, reflects on the company’s success at the 2025 Global Tank Storage Awards
UAB Online was founded in 2010 with a clear mission; to streamline and digitalise communication and operations within the maritime liquid bulk industry. The company has achieved this by creating a global SaaS platform, uniting all stakeholders and making mutual processes safe, efficient…
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Experts from the Carbon Capture & Storage Association explain how the UK’s CCUS market is looking
The UK stands on the brink of an industrial transformation. Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s series of energy-related commitments, including the Clean Power 2030 Mission and his COP29 announcement late in 2024, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 81% from 1990 levels by 2035, show the…
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Dennis Mendenhall, safety manager at Marathon Petroleum explains the rigorous safety culture in the Terminals organisation
Marathon Petroleum's Terminals organisation has recently achieved two consecutive years of record safety performance, as measured by the US government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordable incident rate. How did the organisation do it? It…
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Giacomo Prandelli unpacks how US volatility is flipping the script for storage terminals worldwide, and how to turn it into an opportunity
Welcome to the wild world of storage terminals, where the US market’s ups and downs keep everyone guessing! If you’re in the business of storing oil, gas, or chemicals, you know one thing for sure: what happens in America doesn’t stay in America. It…
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Anamika Talwaria examines the case for going digital, and the barriers terminal CISOs have to overcome to modernise their sites
For many storage terminal facilities, digitalisation and automation are an inevitable future. Such traditional workforces can be resistant to change – especially to processes that are highly regulated and fine-tuned. But stepping into the digital world can bring a raft…
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Tim Doggett, CEO of the Chemical Business Association, explores how Brexit and other challenges have disrupted the chemical supply chain, and what needs to be done to restore trade between the UK and the EU
The chemical supply chain is one of the most critically important global industries. Not only does it play a role in the manufacture and distribution of most of the world’s products, but…
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Kate Rainford speaks to a range of non-destructive testing companies about the essential role it plays at storage terminals
Non-Destructive testing (NDT) plays a critical role in ensuring the safety, reliability, and efficiency of materials, components, and systems within storage terminals, where the safe and efficient handling of high-risk materials is crucial. NDT allows for safer, non-invasive…
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IMTT’s VP for environment, health, safety and security, Traci Johnson, shares her journey from chemical engineering into terminals and leadership
Traci Johnson began her terminals career with IMTT as an assistant during her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering. ‘It was the Christmas break of my freshman year, and my dad asked me what I was planning on doing that summer,’ recalls…
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Jonathan Feys, chief commercial officer at GTS, speaks to Tank Storage Magazine about how the company is preparing for a sustainable future
Ghent Transport and Logistics (GTS) is structured into five different business units in the Port of Ghent, Belgium. These five business units work in a range of areas, including liquid and dry bulk storage, trading of waste streams, warehousing linked to car…
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Sam Porter, CEO, NeuVentus, speaks exclusively to Tank Storage Magazine about the company’s salt caverns storing hydrogen and natural gas in Texas
In 2021, as the US Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and began debating Build Back Better (which ultimately became the Inflation Reduction Act), it was clear that, if all of the various policies and incentives for low-carbon…
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FETSA’s executive director Ravi Bhatiani responds to the EU’s latest White Paper and what role the terminals industry has to play in defence
In late March, the EU announced a White Paper on Defence, as part of the ReArmEU discussions to increase EU defence readiness for worst case scenarios. In an era of rapid geopolitical shifts, the European Union is stepping up to protect its citizens and…
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Gary Jackson, SHEQ director at Vopak North America, speaks to Kate Rainford about Deer Park Terminal’s safety practices
With a capacity of 1,282,512 m³, across 253 tanks, ranging in size from 80,000 barrels to 15,000, Deer Park is the largest of Vopak’s sites in the US and Canada. The terminal stores a range of products, including biofuels, chemicals, petroleum products, base oils and…
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Jay Cruz, senior director of government affairs and communications at the ILTA examines the policy outlook for the terminals industry under the Trump administration
As President Donald Trump and the 119th Congress have settled into office, the legislative landscape for the next two years has taken shape. The current administration is favouring pro-energy policies, and both the International…
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Vassia Sourtzi, senior energy transition specialist at Lloyd’s Register, looks at the factors impacting the global fuel mix
The global energy landscape is undergoing a significant transformation as nations grapple with the dual imperatives of meeting rising energy demands and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Overall, global total final energy consumption (TFEC) has increased from 268 EJ…
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Clyde May, president of ASNT, explains the association’s core mission and looks to the future of NDT
The American Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ASNT) has one clear vision; to make non-destructive testing a highly respected and professional field, recognised globally for its role in creating a safer world. ‘It is a simple statement mission, but it says a lot,’ says Clyde May,…
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Resilium explains how to combat tank overfilling scenarios through gamification
The events of 11 December 2005 were foreseeable. Like all tank storage facilities, Buncefield was vulnerable to a well-known (and arguably obvious) threat of tank overfill. The Incident Report after the event listed similar events (loss of containment of flammable gasoline) as far back as 1962 and the Investigation…
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Discover the importance of leak monitoring; especially when storing methanol
[caption id="attachment_61506" align="alignleft" width="225"] SGB DLG application for Verbio SE in Bitterfeld, Germany. Here with a manifold for three underground tanks[/caption]
Operators of systems with materials hazardous to water are obligated to verify the leak tightness of the system and to routinely monitor the…
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As VTTI celebrates 10 years of operations at its terminal in Cyprus, managing director, and vice president for the Mediterranean region, Thanos Patrikis, looks back at some of the highlights from the last decade
[caption id="attachment_61471" align="alignleft" width="300"] Thanos Patrikis, managing director at VTTV[/caption]
A core part of VTTI’s network is its terminal in Cyprus, also known…
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