Egypt enters Guinness Book of Records with largest oil tank in world

CAIRO – 7 July 2021: The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum announced that one of its companies had received a Guinness World Records certificate in the field of manufacturing and constructing crude oil storage depots by adopting a new and unprecedented method in the implementation and construction of the warehouse with a double and movable floating roof system through the use of more than 240 hydraulic lifts connected to a single control system.

According to Egyptian Petroleum, this is the first and largest method of its kind with regard to the construction of storage warehouses in the world, with a warehouse capacity of 175,000 cubic meters, equivalent to more than one million barrels of crude oil, and a warehouse with a diameter of 115 meters and a weight of more than 3000 tons.

The project, which is implemented by the Egyptian petroleum sector within the national project for the establishment of crude oil storage warehouses, consists of 29 warehouses that were established in the same manner.

The procedures for registering the warehouse in the Guinness Book of Records came through the approval of the Egyptian Minister of Petroleum to start registration during the last period until the completion of construction and operation works, in light of the petroleum sector’s keenness to use the latest global technologies and in line with the sector’s good reputation as one of the most important economic sectors of the country.