storage
Tankage Construction
Storage tank fabrication and erection, plate work, testing and calibration.
At a glance
- Discipline
- storage
- Executed to
- API 650, API 653
Scope of work
- Shell plate erection and welding
- Floating and fixed roof construction
- Bottom plate laying and testing
- Nozzle and appurtenance fitting
- Hydrostatic testing and settlement survey
Method & materials
Shell courses are erected and welded with the distortion controlled as the tank grows, since a shell that is out of round at the top cannot be corrected once the roof is on.
Bottom welds are vacuum box tested, and the completed tank is hydrostatically tested with a settlement survey taken at intervals around the circumference as it fills — the survey is the record that the foundation has taken the load evenly.
Standards
- API 650Welded tanks for oil storage.
- API 653Tank inspection, repair, alteration and reconstruction.
Work is executed to these codes. This is not a claim of certification against them.
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