Kamigoto Oil Storage Terminal was completed in September 1988, as the first floating oil storage terminal in the world. About 3.4 million kiloliters of crude oil had been loaded from Octorber 1988 till January 1989. Currently holding the oil, the system has been satisfactorily operated till now. The characteristics for the maintenance work of this terminal are as follows;
(1) The floating oil storage method makes use of the mooring huge barge for the first time in the world. The examination method based on the law is fundamentally applied to the oil storage barge, but there is no precedent for this. In the future the maintenance work plan and method must be established by accumulating actual results.
(2) The maintenance work of the oil storage barge is different from the one of the land tank. For the land tank the maintenance work is within the limits of the tank facilities. On the other hand, for the oil storage barge the limits of maintenance work extend to the land facilities in connection with the oil storage barge.
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