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Originally Posted by Keith P.
The second one which shows the Imperial Oil refinery site is interesting. The actual refinery is relatively small, but the associated tank farm is huge. Are my eyes deceiving me or do some of the tanks that are up the hill from the refinery have open tops? It is also interesting to see the amount of what appears to be spillage on the ground around some of the tanks.
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No open tops, floating tops. The smell from open tops would be atrocious and the evaporation of product would be akin to throwing money to the wind.
Crude and bunker C tanks require constant heat and a 'floating top' reduces heat loss.
Other refined product tanks don't require heating for obvious reasons.
The tank farm is small. Check out tank farms in Ras Tanura, Mina Al Ahmadi, Jamnagar or Rotterdam not to mention Singapore, and places in Texas or New Jersey.
Irving has 1,000,000 barrel crude tanks in Saint John.
In Kharkh Island, Iran the crude tanks were large enough to hold a full sized soccer field and the Missions to Seamen had an aerial photo of a game in a tank ! That was before Saddam sent his bombers down there for a quick bout of destruction and obliterated the loading terminals and most of the tank farm during the Iran-Iraq war.
The refinery flare at Khark was visible for over 30 miles, in the days of $1.50 a barrel crude.
Youtube is your friend :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS5kLz9YT6M
Lavan Island opened circa '69/70