Earl Crochet, owner of Crochet Midstream Consulting, explores the fast pace of regulatory changes in the aboveground storage tank industry As someone who has been dealing with aboveground storage tanks (ASTs) for more than 36 years, I have seen drastic regulatory changes over that time. And the pace of this change continues to increase. In 1988, when I started on Plantation Pipe Line, a pipeline regulated by the Federal Department of Transportation (DOT), now known as the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the only regulation required was to do a yearly inspection on a tank (and no one […]
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StocExpo 2025: Experts Call for Practical Emission Solutions for Net Zero
As StocExpo, the world’s leading tank storage and energy infrastructure event, celebrates its 20th edition in Rotterdam this week, there has understandably been a lot of focus over how far the industry has come in the last two decades. In the session called ‘20 years of emissions control’, the panel, chaired by Ellen Daniels, CEO at British Compressed Gases Association, looked at the advances the tank storage industry had made in terms of emissions, from the treatment of vapours, to secondary seals and the move from combustion to more tailor-made solutions. However, for some, the biggest advances have been less […]
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March 12, 2025
