Magi
Registered Member
A burning storage tank with a huge plume of smoke looks dramatic but storage tanks themselves are generic equipment and can be easily replaced. In a robust industrial region temporary tanks can be delivered the same day. Smaller volume, but operation will continue. Surviving tanks can be repurposed. A new properly sized tank can be fabricated in a short time.Storage tanks are where oil goes before getting sent to a terminal to get loaded onto a tanker. Without storage tanks and on shore storage, wells have to be shut down which is damaging to the well and requires a long restart period.
This isn’t 1991 where you have to set fire to wells. You can accomplish things much easier by attacking the refineries, storage tanks, and oil terminals which will force operators to shut down wells because there is no where for the oil to go downstream.
But destroying specialized equipment like distillation towers, reactors, compressors, intricate multilevel piping and racks, specific pumps, etc. would put the operation to sleep for a long time. That is what Iran destroyed in the Qatar gas plant retaliatory attack. That was a $20 billion hit. This tank? Slash a lot of zeros. Never mind the time difference in returning to operation.
Last edited:




