API Tank Solutions from WINBCO: Meeting Strict Industry Standards for Storage and Safety

WINBCO has built many different tanks that adhere to crucial and rigorous industry standards, such as the API 650 regulations for above-ground constructions. Today we’re taking a closer look at API tanks and what’s needed to ensure compliance–as well as the expertise that WINBCO offers in these types of storage vessels.

API 650: Ensuring Safe Storage of Oil and Other Materials

PI 650: Ensuring Safe Storage of Oil and other Materials
Many of the fluids and gasses used in chemical production, petroleum refining, and other similar applications require specialized methods of storage to ensure the safety of employees, the facility, and the stored fluids themselves. The American Petroleum Institute developed a number of nationally-recognized certifications that are used today to promote safety and adherence to local, state, and federal regulations across the natural gas and oil industry, and one of those major standards is API 650. 

API 650 is a certification that applies mainly to above-ground welded tanks used for oil storage, though due to the certification’s popularity, it also applies to chemicals, gas, water, and biofuels stored in low-pressure conditions. This particular API certification lays out specific standards for the construction, welding, and maintenance of atmospheric tanks up to 2.5 psig and 500°F with the option of flat or sloped bottoms and cone or dome roofs, and these types of tanks can be found across the country serving many different storage needs. 

Custom-Built API 650 Tanks at WINBCO

WINBCO has the capability and expertise to build custom tanks that strictly follow regulations set out by the API 650 standard, as well as fulfill the unique requirements of our customers’ projects. Our team can complete shop-assembled API 650 tanks as well as travel for on-site construction should the project require it, and we do all of this while maintaining strict standards for quality, performance, and safety with each tank. 
Our expertise in API 650 isn’t just limited to oil storage tanks. Stillage tanks, fermenters, beer wells, equalization tanks, liquefaction tanks, UASB reactors, slurry tanks–we can build all of these and more to API 650 certification. Our team has a long history of constructing API tanks, and WINBCO even boasts construction of 80% of all standing ethanol tanks in operation across the country. We have a track record decades long to prove our expertise in the field and guarantee that our customers receive storage tanks that fit their needs and meet industry regulations. 

Interested in learning more?

If you’d like to learn more about WINBCO and our capabilities when it comes to API tanks as well as many others, don't hesitate to contact us today.