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Commercial oil tank regulations.
Oil tank installation and building regulations.
Oil storage containers include tanks drums intermediate bulk containers ibcs and.
You have to follow certain regulations if you have an oil storage container at your home business or farm.
If you are simply storing oil in a tank on your land there are some rules that still apply as set out in the oil storage regulations from the government.
Oil is the commonest pollutant in the uk accounting for one quarter of all incidents.
The tank is within 10 metres of a river stream ditch lake canal the sea soakaway septic tank effluent treatment system water storage tank aquifer or gully or where a spill from the tank could reach the aforementioned.
Are comprised of tanks that have a capacity of more than 230 litres and are designed to be installed in a fixed location.
For more information on this see the building regulations section below.
They should never be installed where.
The oil storage regulations apply to all new installations in the uk both domestic and commercial.
Contain petroleum products such as used oil home heating oil jet fuel diesel and gasoline or allied petroleum products such as biodiesel general purpose thinners for lacquers isopropanol uninhibited ethylene.
These include meeting the building regulations for oil tanks.
The regulations apply to storage tank systems that.