TOP: Part of the steel floating roof on the huge crude oil storage tank being built at the Marsden Point oil refinery expansion site near Whangarei. The floating roof reduces evaporation. BOTTOM: Members of the construction gang from the firm, Chicago Bridge and Iron, which has been engaged to build the storage tank. Measuring 67 metres in diameter and standing 22 metres high, the tank is one of the two largest being built on the site. It will have a capacity of 77 million litres. Work on the tank’s construction began in 1982 and is expected to be completed by April next year.
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Press, 23 October 1984, Page 36
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103TOP: Part of the steel floating roof on the huge crude oil storage tank being built at the Marsden Point oil refinery expansion site near Whangarei. The floating roof reduces evaporation. BOTTOM: Members of the construction gang from the firm, Chicago Bridge and Iron, which has been engaged to build the storage tank. Measuring 67 metres in diameter and standing 22 metres high, the tank is one of the two largest being built on the site. It will have a capacity of 77 million litres. Work on the tank’s construction began in 1982 and is expected to be completed by April next year. Press, 23 October 1984, Page 36
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