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Photos of Oil Tanks The images below are of oil gathering tanks and tanks that are used while drilling a well. Frac tanks are used to store water on the site of an oil drilling rig and are also used after the well has been drilled. Companies such as Halliburton use the tanks when they set up massive pumping equipment and pump water down the well to fracture the rock bearing oil and gas so that it will flow out more easily. Some oil (and most all gas wells) are connected to a pipeline which transports the product to market. Other wells are connected to tanks such as those below. An oil hauling truck will come at regular intervals and haul the oil away to market. Today most oil tanks are made of metal. Some tanks that hold brine or salt water produced by the well may be made of fiberglass. At the
bottom of the page is a photo of a wooden tank built in 1935 that was still in
use in a field near
Iraan,
in West Texas up until a couple of years ago. It was made of cypress wood and
banded together with iron bands. Prickly pear cactus has grown on the top,
sprouted from seeds dropped by birds roosting on top of the tank. The oil
and salt have preserved the wood from the inside out and it may indeed last for
many more years. During the great oil boom days in Texas many large cypress trees
along river bottoms in East Texas were
felled for oil tank construction.
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Below, sun setting over a rusty, abandoned oil tank in the West Texas oil patch.
The taller tank is a "gun barrel" tank, used to separate oil from salt water. Salt water is found in oil bearing formations and must be removed at the surface before the oil can be sold. On a larger scale: Below, Tank Farm In Germany for storage of imported foreign oil.
Below, crude oil tank farm, Czech Republic.
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