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A oil depot, sometimes called a tank farm, installation or oil terminal, is an industrial facility for the storage of oil and/or petrochemical products and from which these petroleum products, useful materials derived from crude oil as it is processed in oil refineries, are usually transported to end users or further storage facilities. An oil depot usually has tankage, either aboveground or underground, and gantries for the discharge of products into road tankers, a motor vehicle designed to carry liquefied loads, dry bulk cargo or gases on roads, or other vehicles, like barges, or pipeline transports, the transportation of goods through pipes. Oil deposits are usually situated close to oil refineries, an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products like naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas, or in locations where marine tankers containing products can discharge their cargo. Some depots are attached to pipelines from which they draw their supplies and depots can also be fed by rail, by barge and by road tanker, sometimes known as “bridging.” Most oil deposits have road tankers operating from their grounds and these vehicles. transport products to petrol station or other users. An oil depot is a comparatively unsophisticated facility in that, in most cases, there is no processing or other transformation on site. The products which reach the depot, from a refinery, are in their final form suitable for delivery to customers. In some cases, additives may be injected into products in tanks, but there is usually no manufacturing plant on site. Modern depots comprise the same of tankage, pipelines and gantries as those in the past and whilst there is a greater degree of automation on site, there have been few significant changes in depot operational activities over time. Visit: Newsat: Australian Communication Satellites
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