PETROMAX TECHNOLOGIES

In consulting with this innovative firm, they continually complained about the inspection problems caused by hard-to-remove tank bottom sludge which accumulates over time in refinery and production field crude oil storage tanks. Periodically, these tanks must be emptied and inspected as the bottoms become seriously corroded and potentially fail, causing millions of dollars of environmental damage and inspecting the tanks is a very difficult and dangerous task. Unless the tank bottom is completely clean, oil tanks are not only very difficult to accurately inspect, they are impossible to repair problem areas. A common complaint is the fact that presently used cleaning methods are ineffective and extremely expensive... As a result, we were asked to help in the search for a more efficient method of removing sludge and cleaning the tank floor. We discovered that, for decades, there had been no major improvements in the methods used to clean or dispose of the heavy tank bottom sludge... If..