March 2026

This issue of Tanks & Terminals opens with Gordon Cope’s cross-continental examination of oil and gas terminal operations and storage units across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. This issue also includes a variety of features covering safety, cybersecurity, digitalisation, insulation, tank maintenance, biofuels, and much more.

This month's front cover is brought to you by Henkel Adhesives Technology.

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Cross-continental commonalities
Gordon Cope, Contributing Editor, discusses the major factors affecting the tanks and terminals sector across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Management and mitigation
Brittney Gatehouse, Alana Hodge, Brad Skenfield, and Kelly Winson, Trinity Consultants, consider some best practice programmes for tank and terminal operators to manage working in hazardous environments.

A new safety standard
Alessandro Gerotto, Alberto Feletto, Daniel Devò, and Edoardo Marangoni, Gerotto Federico Srl, Italy, explore how the use of remotely operated robots can aid safety through replacing human workers during hazardous maintenance and tank cleaning operations.

Proactive protection
Will Conner, Henkel Adhesives Technology, considers how operators can advance storage tank integrity and extend asset life through protection and repair technologies.

Keeping tanks covered from corrosion risk
Abraham Sebastian, ROCKWOOL Technical Insulation, USA, reviews how advances in stone wool insulation are keeping storage tanks safer from the costs and risks of corrosion under insulation.

Frozen frontiers
Kristen White, Johns Manville, discusses some of the challenges operators face when insulating LNG and cryogenic systems, and how best to engineer a solution to mitigate against such issues.

Driving safer LNG operations through passive fire suppression
LNG facilities face significant risks during spill events as rapid vaporisation can lead to intense pool fires. Alec Cusick, Owens Corning®, discusses an insulation solution that can help protect and mitigate against such events.

Modernising a legacy terminal
Thomas Grand, Samp, the Netherlands, explores how the implementation of a digital twin solution at the Montoir LNG terminal improved day-to-day operations and facilitated planning for future projects.

A lever for change
Hans Bobeldijk, UAB-Online, considers how digital solutions can improve the efficiency of terminal operations, with a particular emphasis on Houston’s Ship Channel.

Protecting critical infrastructure
Tobias Nitzsche, ABB, argues that as tank terminals digitalise to gain operational efficiency, security and connectivity must be designed together rather than treated as opposing forces.

From dock to cloud
Rohan Awasthi, Emerson, USA, explores how cloud-hosted software-as-a-service platforms are reshaping terminal operations, by streamlining order management, generating more accurate and improved invoicing, automating reporting, and enhancing cybersecurity.

Innage vs outage ATG measurements
Alexander Bukhman, Gauging Systems Inc., USA, considers the impact of reference height instability and tank bottom movement on automatic tank gauge (ATG) level and volume accuracy for inventory control and custody transfer applications.

A new class of renewable liquids
Jon Whittall, TEC Container Solutions, UK, considers how terminal operators can best prepare storage infrastructure for new bio-based liquids, amid complex handling requirements and changing environmental conditions.

March 2026

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