Storage of Crude Oil.
TANKS ERECTED AT WELLINGTON. '
WELLING ON, March 22
Out at Miramar, on the shores of one of the bays of Wellington Harbour, the Vacuum Oil Company have established, after over a year’s work, a station for crude oil, the tanks having a capacity of over 4,000,000 gallons. The main inlet and disoharge pipes are 12in in diameter, and in the engine-room are pumps capable of handling 1500 gallons of oil per minute. The tanks, which are huge affairs, were imported in sections from America. The tanks, when completed, were tested with seawater, and no leaks were found, a compliment to the manufacturers and the work of the rivetters. A method of prevention of destruction by fire has been installed, an arrangement by means of which chemical bubbles form masses of foam and put out the fire. Two chemicals are used to make the foam, and once this is thick upon the surface of the oil. no air can get at it, and so the fire cannot exist. The whole of the arrangements in connexion with this oil store ane most complete, and before long “ tankers ” will be able to load up at it. A similar store is being erected by the company at Sydney.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1922, Page 1
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