Underground Storage Tanks Issues
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Underground Storage Tanks Issues
Possessing precious minerals like petroleum are a treasure. It can make one become excited and even feel crazy. All one has to do when in possession of such newfound property is to develop means and ways of detecting, mining and utilization of that treasure in order to get high returns and also strengthen the economy of the society surrounding the petroleum well. Petroleum mining has been tried several ways without success (Mannan, 2005).
After the notification that my Uncle Harry left his old service station property to me with two underground storage tanks that some petroleum product in them, I would first enclose the entire area of the service station including the two storage tanks and the long-unused well that has signs of petroleum. Enclosing the area with a high board fence will assist in shutting out intrusive mortals. This would help in preventing fire as petroleum is highly volatile. I would allow the place to have only one entrance with an authority person to control the area (Frumkin, 2010).
Thereafter, I would inform the Petroleum Shaft & Mining Company to come and drill a sinking shaft on the in the area near the line of the long-unused well that has a strong odor of petroleum. While the depth of the first shaft will be 180 feet and 25 feet thick, the second shaft will be 360 feet and 30 feet thick. The location of the first shaft will be about fifty feet above the level. The main foundations of the mining well will house and support the engines that will be erected for mining operations. The Petroleum Shaft & Mining Company will create three engines; a ninety horsepower, and fifty horse powers. The company will sink the shaft 500 feet and bring in a new era in the Petroleum mining process (Tiemann, 2010).
In conclusion, majority of oil developments used sinking shafts in order to get oil in large quantity and tap the fountain as its cranium.
References
Frumkin, H. (2010). Environmental Health: From Global to Local. New Jersey: Jossey Bass Wiley Publishers.
Mannan, S. (2005). Lee’s Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Hazard … Volume 1. New York: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Tiemann, M. (2010). Leaking underground storage tanks: program status and issues. New York: Routledge publishers.