Atmospheric Storage Tanks
Consultant/Trainer: Muthu Subramanian
The Petrogenium Atmospheric storage tanks course will guide the participants to develop key concepts and techniques to select, design, operate and maintain the atmospheric storage tanks. These key concepts can be utilized to make optimized design and operating decisions without endangering technical and operational integrity of storage assets. This training give yourself and your employees the keys to success of reducing the cost for the full life cycle of storage tanks.
Cost
Location
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dates
TBD
About the Trainer
Muthu is a highly experienced mechanical engineer with 38 years of expertise in oil and gas storage asset integrity management across Asia Pacific, Nigeria, and Middle Eastern regions. After retiring from Shell in 2025, he joined Petrogenium as Principal Consultant specializing in atmospheric storage tanks, where he brings deep knowledge in tank design, project management, operations, and advanced inspection technologies. As a recognized Subject Matter Expert, Muthu has consistently delivered practical solutions for complex technical challenges and has extensive experience training and developing tank engineers throughout the industry.
Participants
This Petrogenium course aims at improving competencies of mechanical engineers, inspection and corrosion engineers, operators, process engineers in terms of understanding the storage engineering issues faced by complex refineries. It is also possible to benefit from an exclusive technical services arrangement from Petrogenium after the training. Participants can be from diverse spectrum of both young and experienced engineers. The training includes both theoretical and practical hands-on sessions. The training can also be structured to address specific issues faced by a particular refinery / operating unit.
Learning Objectives
- Design for longevity, operation, and maintenance.
- Right selection of atmospheric storage tanks.
- Theory of thin cylinders and applicable loading criteria.
- Operational considerations viz venting safety, pressure controls, volume accounting, loss controls, quality control aspects.
- Corrosion and degradation mechanism.
- Inspection management and scheduling, onstream inspection tools.
- Acceptance criteria on pressure boundary components increasing tank availability.
- Fundamentals to Tank RBI.
- Repair scoping of tank shutdown.
DAY 1
- Design Selection
- Accidents with storage tanks
- Fixed roof and its components
- External floating roof, internal floating roof, Aluminum dome roof
- Rim seal designs
DAY 2
- Theory of thin cylinders and loading aspects
- Tank operational conditions
- Venting
- Emissions
- Mixing and sampling
- Loss control
- Accounting
- Tank Construction
- Construction methodologies
- Hydrostatic test
- Nondestructive testing
- Corrosion and degradation mechanism
- Credible degradation mechanism for tank components
- Internal and external corrosion mechanism and CRs
- Accept, monitor, or reject decision.
DAY 3
- Inspection Management and scheduling.
- Onstream inspection technologies (Robotics).
- Repair scoping.
- Optimized tank RBI.
- New repair techniques (onstream floating roof repairs).
Programme
DAY 1
- Design Selection
- Accidents with storage tanks
- Fixed roof and its components
- External floating roof, internal floating roof, Aluminum dome roof
- Rim seal designs
DAY 2
- Theory of thin cylinders and loading aspects
- Tank operational conditions
- Venting
- Emissions
- Mixing and sampling
- Loss control
- Accounting
- Tank Construction
- Construction methodologies
- Hydrostatic test
- Nondestructive testing
- Corrosion and degradation mechanism
- Credible degradation mechanism for tank components
- Internal and external corrosion mechanism and CRs
- Accept, monitor, or reject decision.
DAY 3
- Inspection Management and scheduling.
- Onstream inspection technologies (Robotics).
- Repair scoping.
- Optimized tank RBI.
- New repair techniques (onstream floating roof repairs).