Storage tanks hold the various petroleum products used in the community such as gasoline, diesel, aviation fuel, liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs), kerosene or heating oil. Even though you cannot see it, each gasoline tank has a roof that moves up and down, depending on the amount of liquid in the tank. There's a flexible seal around the entire roof that keeps vapors inside.

A pipe takes the petroleum product from each tank so we can load it into trucks. Most truck-loading facilities are equipped with vapor recovery systems so that when trucks load from a tank, any vapor that escapes from the loading nozzle is captured and either burned to remove trace gasoline vapors or processed to recover the vapors and placed back into storage.

Every loading hose is connected to an overfill protection system that is especially designed to prevent spills.

Not all of the product that comes to our terminal goes into a tank. We pass some product farther up the pipeline for other people to use.