scholarly journals Operation, maintenance, and monitoring of large-diameter caverns in oil storage facilities in domal salt

2015 ◽  
pp. 241-254
Keyword(s):  
Large Diameter ◽  
Oil Storage ◽  
Storage Facilities

EXPLOSION IMPACTS IN UNDERGROUND CRUDE OIL STORAGE FACILITIES

1981 ◽  
pp. 385-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.E. Shaw ◽  
M.N. Plooster ◽  
R.D. Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Crude Oil ◽  
Oil Storage ◽  
Explosion Impacts ◽  
Storage Facilities

Design and Construction of Pipeline Integrated Oil Storage Caverns

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Broyles ◽  
Paul Dusseault ◽  
Frank Vanden Elsen
Keyword(s):  
Crude Oil ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Low Flow ◽  
Oil Storage ◽  
Oil Transportation ◽  
Control Centre ◽  
Salt Caverns ◽  
Design And Construction ◽  
Storage Facilities

In response to industry demand, Hardisty Caverns Limited Partnership (HCLP) has developed cost effective underground storage facilities with a capacity to store 480,000 m3 (3 million barrels) of crude oil. This project is unique through the integration of existing underground salt caverns into a significant North American crude oil transportation hub. Annually, 64 million cubic meters (400 million barrels) of oil move through this hub. This project utilizes existing caverns developed in the late 1960’s. Significant work was required to upgrade the cavern facilities and to construct new surface facilities to integrate the caverns into the crude oil transportation hub. Remote operation of the facility is performed from a control centre in Edmonton. In this paper, the key features of the design and construction of the Hardisty Cavern Storage Project will be presented. Of particular interest are the unique challenges presented due to hydraulic considerations related to cavern operation with multiple product characteristics and to provide crude oil movements exchanges between the cavern storage facilities and both low flow rate feeder pipelines and high flow rate transportation pipelines.

NUTSHELL SUMMARY OF EPA'S NATIONAL SURVEY OF OIL STORAGE FACILITIES

1997 ◽  
Vol 1997 (1) ◽  
pp. 952-953
Author(s):  
Janet LaFiandra Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Oil Storage ◽  
Storage Facilities

ABSTRACT In April 1995, EPA conducted a national survey of oil storage facilities potentially subject to its Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) regulation (40 CFR Part 112). The purpose of the survey was to answer five specific questions: (1) How many facilities are regulated by EPA's SPCC program? (2) What types of facilities does the SPCC program regulate? (3) What do these facilities look like? (4) Which facilities pose the greatest oil spill risk? And (5) How effective is the SPCC program in reducing oil spill risk? This nutshell summary briefly discusses EPA's analysis of the survey data.

Quantitative risk analysis of oil storage facilities in seismic areas

2005 ◽  
Vol 123 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Fabbrocino ◽  
Iunio Iervolino ◽  
Francesca Orlando ◽  
Ernesto Salzano
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Risk Analysis ◽  
Oil Storage ◽  
Storage Facilities

Buckling Characteristics of Floating Roof Pontoons in Aboveground Storage Tanks Subjected to Bending Load in Two Directions

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoichi Yoshida ◽  
Kazuhiro Kitamura
Keyword(s):  
Large Diameter ◽  
Bending Moment ◽  
Bottom Plate ◽  
Storage Tanks ◽  
Buckling Strength ◽  
Linear Elastic ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
Oil Storage ◽  
Bending Load ◽  
Shell Finite Element

The 2003 Tokachi-Oki earthquake caused severe damage to aboveground oil storage tanks due to liquid sloshing. Seven single-deck floating roofs had experienced structural problems as evidenced by sinking failure in large diameter tanks at the refinery in Tomakomai, Japan. The pontoons of the floating roofs might be buckled due to circumferential bending moment during the sloshing. The content in the tank was spilled on the floating roof from small failures which were caused at the welding joints of pontoon bottom plate by the buckling. Then the floating roof began to lose buoyancy and submerged into the content slowly. The authors had reported the buckling strength of the pontoons with and without ring stiffeners subjected to circumferential bending load in the previous papers. This paper presents the buckling strength of the pontoons subjected to both circumferential and radial bending load. The axisymmetric shell finite element method is used in the analysis. Linear elastic bifurcation buckling analysis is carried out and the buckling characteristics of the pontoon with and without ring stiffeners are investigated.

Buckling of Ring Stiffened Pontoons of Floating Roofs in Aboveground Oil Storage Tanks

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoichi Yoshida ◽  
Kazuhiro Kitamura
Keyword(s):  
Large Diameter ◽  
Bending Moment ◽  
Bottom Plate ◽  
Storage Tanks ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Linear Elastic ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
Oil Storage ◽  
Bifurcation Buckling ◽  
Shell Finite Element

The 2003 Tokachi-Oki earthquake caused severe damage to oil storage tanks due to liquid sloshing. Six single-deck floating roofs had experienced structural problems as evidenced by sinking failure in large diameter tanks at the refinery in Tomakomai, Japan. The pontoon of floating roof might be buckled due to circumferential bending moment during the sloshing. The content in the tank was spilled on the floating roof from small failures which might be caused in the lap-welded joints or in the stress concentrated parts of the pontoon bottom plate by the buckling. Then the floating roof began to lose buoyancy and submerged into the content slowly. The failure of the roof expanded gradually in the sinking process. It is presumed that the initial small failures were caused by the elastic buckling of the pontoon due to circumferential bending moment. In this paper, the buckling strength of the pontoon is presented using axisymmetric shell finite element analysis. Linear elastic bifurcation buckling analyses are carried out and the buckling characteristics of ring stiffened pontoons are investigated.

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