LPG Transfer Pipe(line) through Oil Products Tank Farm
LPG Transfer Pipe(line) through Oil Products Tank Farm
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Does anybody know whether there is a ruling, legislation, guideline or similar (in any country) which prohibits or strongly recommends against the routing of an LPG transfer line through an oil products tank farm? The situation I am thinking of is an existing marine terminal. LPG would be offloaded at piers which could be used for both oil products and LPG. The LPG would be transferred through a pipeline routed through the existing oil products tank farm to the LPG storage facilities which are off site. Of course the engineering would take the relevant codes (spacings etc.) and risk analyses into account. Right now I am interested whether this configuration is allowed by law etc. I could not find any ruling against.





RE: LPG Transfer Pipe(line) through Oil Products Tank Farm
RE: LPG Transfer Pipe(line) through Oil Products Tank Farm
We had some cathodic protection problems with our lines going through one. The tanks have CP to protect their bases. Since the tanks were old, they "leaked" CP electrons and caused interference from our CP. We worked with the tank farm owner and bonded our lines to their tanks and everyone was happy.
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When you install the LPG line you will either have to cut the berms or directionally drill or bore under the berms. I,ve seen jet fir impinging on the ground and or pipeline was buried 7 feet at that point. The groud baked to a fire brick and just 1 foot down or less, the ants survived and came after the fire and started rebuilding.
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You may need to establish if the site has had seepage of hydrocarbons in the past. Testing of ground water is one way. A site in Sydney had heavily contaminated ground . So much so that they excavated the site and recovered the hydrocarbons to pay for the clean up! Such contamination could present problems for the drilling rig as well as environmental disposal of the refuse.
Running the LPG line through the facility aboveground on a rack presents its own problems of hot work in an operating environment. This is routinely carried out so is not such anissue. You just have to have all the safeguards and procedures in place.
Geoffrey D Stone FIMechE C.Eng;FIEAust CP Eng
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I've never put anything inside a dike wall that didn't need to be there to service that tank.
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dcasto, can I have a piece of that contract?
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Believe it, the technology is out there for what you want.
You would be using a cathodic protection system to protect your pipeline from corrosion.
Geoffrey D Stone FIMechE C.Eng;FIEAust CP Eng
www.waterhammer.bigblog.com.au
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