Bulk Storage Tank Fabrication You Can Trust

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T BAILEY LLC fabricates custom bulk storage tanks for fuel, chemical, water, gas, and liquid applications from our facility in Anacortes, Washington. We build shop-built and field-erected tanks in carbon steel and stainless steel. Our own crews prepare the plate, fabricate and weld the tank, then blast, coat, test, and deliver it. You work with one accountable team from the first cut of plate through final installation, backed by heavy steel fabrication experience. When your project requires a bulk storage tank matched to a specific product and code, we engineer it to the standard that governs the service.

Bulk Storage Tanks

What a Bulk Storage Tank Is

A bulk storage tank is a large-volume steel vessel built for the aboveground storage of liquids and gases at an industrial scale. We fabricate bulk storage tanks for liquids and gases in single-wall or double-wall configurations, in vertical or horizontal orientation, and sized to the site.

What the tank holds drives the specification. The stored product sets the material, the lining, the containment requirement, and the governing code. A vertical bulk storage tank maximizes capacity within a limited footprint, and our vertical storage tank page covers that orientation in full.

Bulk Storage Tanks by Stored Product

We fabricate bulk storage tanks for a wide range of products, each with its own material, coating, and code requirements.

Bulk Fuel Storage Tanks

Bulk fuel storage tanks hold diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, and other petroleum products for depots, fleet fueling, and standby power systems. These bulk fuel tanks are commonly double-wall units with interstitial leak monitoring and secondary containment sized to 110% of tank capacity under EPA SPCC. We fabricate them to UL 142 and STI F921, and to the UL 2085 protected standard, which rates a bulk fuel storage tank for fire, ballistic, and impact resistance where a release would carry serious consequences.

Bulk Chemical Storage Tanks

Bulk chemical storage tanks hold process chemicals, acids, and industrial fluids across manufacturing and water treatment. Material selection drives a bulk chemical storage tank, since the corrosivity of the stored substance decides between carbon steel with a lining and stainless steel. Where corrosion resistance governs, we fabricate the chemical bulk tank in stainless steel and verify the alloy with positive material identification. Chemical storage is heavily regulated, and programs such as New York’s hazardous substance bulk storage regulations set inspection and containment requirements operators plan around.

Bulk Water Storage Tanks

Bulk water storage tanks serve potable water, municipal water, process water, and fire suppression systems. A bulk water storage tank is typically carbon steel with an interior lining selected for the stored water and local health codes. For municipal and industrial water storage, we build to AWWA D100.

Bulk Gas and Low-Pressure Storage Tanks

Bulk gas storage tanks hold products that cannot be stored at atmospheric pressure, including liquefied and cryogenic gases. We fabricate these low-pressure bulk storage tanks to API 620 for pressures up to roughly 15 psig. Where a product is stored above 15 psig, an ASME Section VIII pressure vessel is the correct design, and our ASME pressure vessel line covers that work. Bulk liquid storage tanks for lower-pressure petroleum, chemical, and water service are most often built to API 650, the welded steel tank standard used across refineries and terminals.

We also build condensate tanks, cone-bottom tanks for products that must drain fully, and hopper-bottom fuel tanks, each configured to the product it serves.

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Codes and Standards We Build To

Every bulk storage tank is built to the code that governs its product and service. The standards most often specified include the following:

  • ASME Section VIII, Division 1: Pressure vessels for products stored above 15 psig.
  • API 620: Low-pressure tanks for gases and cryogenic products, from 0.5 to 15 psig.
  • API 650: Welded steel tanks for petroleum and general liquid storage up to about 200°F.
  • API 653: Inspection, repair, and alteration of in-service tanks.
  • UL 142 and STI F921: Aboveground atmospheric tanks for flammable and combustible liquids, with a UL 142 working pressure limit of 0.5 psig.
  • UL 2085: Protected tanks rated for fire, ballistic, and impact resistance.
  • AWWA D100: Welded steel tanks for municipal and industrial water storage.

We confirm the applicable standard with your engineering team before fabrication, so the finished tank carries the listing your permit and insurer require.

Custom Sizing and Materials

Bulk storage tanks range from modest process vessels to very large field-erected tanks, and we fabricate across that span. Tanks within transport limits are built in our shop, while larger tanks are fabricated in sections in-house and assembled on-site by our crews as field-erected tanks.

We fabricate in carbon steel for most liquid service, and in stainless steel where corrosion resistance or sanitation governs. Our heavy plate rolling capacity and large capacity cranes let us take on wall thicknesses and diameters many regional tank fabricators cannot.

Testimonial

There was no better intermediary for ensuring the construction project was always running smoothly and at its peak. They were a great coordinator and leader; able to convince everyone from subcontractors to engineers to follow their lead. This is because they exude knowledge and expertise that inspires trust in their work.

The Nyanza Tank and Booster Replacement had many scheduling hurdles to overcome by T Bailey. The District needed to build the new 2MG tank and booster station while keeping the existing online. T Bailey was able to work with the surrounding neighborhood, come up with innovative solutions, and bring the new tank and booster station online smoothly and with very few changes to the project.

I would like to suggest you work with the company, TBailey LLC
I strongly reference the partnership of the company for your contractor.

LAKEWOOD WATER DISTRICT

We appreciate the high quality work provided by T-Bailey and your subcontractors. The project was well managed and your team provided exceptional customer service to our neighboring customers throughout the project.

I want to personally thank you for your continual efforts to meet or exceed the contract requirements and for your personal and prompt attention to any questions or concerns.

We look forward to the opportunity to work with you on a future project.

LAKE WHATCOM WATER & SEWER DISTRICT

We appreciate the high quality work provided by T-Bailey and your subcontractors. The project was well managed and your team provided exceptional customer service to our neighboring customers throughout the project.

I want to personally thank you for your continual efforts to meet or exceed the contract requirements and for your personal and prompt attention to any questions or concerns.

We look forward to the opportunity to work with you on a future project.

Sincerely,

LAKE WHATCOM WATER & SEWER DISTRICT

T Bailey LLC has built over a dozen petroleum storage tanks for our site and rebuilt a number of others in our working tank farm in the last several years.

While known for their remarkable speed to complete their work, in our case, it has been done safely despite very congested working conditions with the other trades and often rough weather conditions- both high winds and rain. Work was stopped appropriately when wind was a problem and proper precautions were taken.

Highly experienced oversight was brought in on the more challenging tasks to insure safe completion at our site. T Bailey’s equipment is usually the newest and in the best condition, which I’m sure helps their success.

We’d recommend T Bailey LLC for future work.

TARGA SOUND TERMINAL LLC

T Bailey worked diligently from the initial quote stage through fabrication to meet the needs of our client and have demonstrated their professionalism and experience at every turn. They have opened their doors and entertained multiple visits from both ROC Equipment and SFI before and during the fabrication process. While onsite, T Bailey representatives answered various technical questions that demonstrated their vast knowledge of the product and the drilling industry in particular. The attention to detail and QA/QC was obvious when observing the fabrication process and both ROC and SFI were extremely impressed. Employees took great care in their work, which says a lot about the employees themselves, but also their employer. T Bailey has also been very amenable to any design changes and schedule changes that have been requested by our client.

Above all, it has been TBailey’s product that has been so superior. The exceptional rolling, welding, and flush grinding actually caused excitement when the casing arrived to the project jobsite.

Based on this response and our own satisfaction, T Bailey will be ROC’s casing fabricator of choice, regardless of where the project is located. Potential savings in shipping costs from a closer fabricator are not worth foregoing the high quality product offered by T Bailey.

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In-House Fabrication, Coatings, and Testing

Bulk storage tank fabrication follows a controlled sequence. We cut, bevel, and roll the steel plate, fabricate and weld the shell and heads, then move the tank into surface preparation and coating ahead of final testing. For thick-walled tanks, heat treatment and stress relief protect weld integrity.

Our industrial coatings division sits on the same campus as fabrication. Keeping coatings in-house holds the schedule, since a finished tank never waits in an outside coater’s queue, and it avoids the transit damage of moving a tank between shops. One quality program governs surface preparation through the final coat, and our inspection team performs nondestructive examination, hydrostatic and leak testing, and coating verification before a tank ships.

Bulk Storage Tank Repair

We also repair and modify existing bulk storage tanks. When an in-service tank needs corrosion repair, a code upgrade, or a new floor or roof, our field crews handle bulk storage tank repair using the same crews that build our new tanks. Our tank repair and maintenance line covers the full scope.

Why T BAILEY LLC for Bulk Storage Tanks

Operators across the oil and gas, water, and chemical sectors rely on T BAILEY LLC for bulk tank storage built to their product and code requirements. We self-perform the whole build, from fabrication and welding through blasting, coating, and testing, and our own crews handle field erection. A single team and one quality record carry your bulk storage tank from plate to installation. Few fabricators in the region cover the same breadth of stored products and codes.

Our in-house industrial coatings and metallizing match corrosion protection to the stored product. When a build exceeds shop-transportable size, the same scope carries to field erection without changing partners.

Bulk Storage Tank FAQs

Build Your Bulk Storage Tank With T BAILEY LLC

T BAILEY LLC fabricates bulk storage tanks for the products, pressures, and codes operators run every day. From a single fuel tank to a field-erected water or petroleum tank, we engineer, build, coat, test, and deliver on one accountable schedule. Contact T BAILEY LLC to discuss the product, capacity, and delivery requirements for your bulk storage tank.

Services

Construction

Our roots in industrial construction have given us the experience your project needs.

CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
Civil Construction
Field Erected Tanks
Tank Construction

Fabrication

Our steel fabrication division can meet the unforgiving shipping and construction schedules of our customers, delivering high-quality projects on time.

FABRICATION SERVICES
Custom Steel Fabrication
Steel Tank Repair & Maintenance
Steel Storage Tank Fabrication
Shop Built Tank Fabrication
Water Storage Tanks
Fire Protection Water Storage Tanks Fabrication
Wastewater Storage & Management
Gas Storage & Management
Oil Storage & Management
Industrial Steel Stack Fabrication
Floating Roof Tank Fabrication
Fireguard Fuel Storage Tank Fabrication
Pressure Vessel Fabrication
Penstock
Pipe Piling
Steel Casing Pipe
Steel Plate Fabrication

Coatings

With a ride range of coating abilities, our industrial painting division can provide the surface preparation and coatings your project needs.

COATING SERVICES
Surface Preparation
Industrial Painting
Metalizing
Blasting

Main Equipment

Our facilities are geared to the fabrication of AWWA and API field-erected welded steel storage tanks, UL and API shop tanks, pressure vessels, AWWA C200 water pipe, wind energy towers, large plate exhaust duct, and large diameter casing. Fabricated materials can be primed and painted before being shipped directly to a client’s jobsite or tied in with our construction division.

  • 4-roll hydraulic plate bending rolls, up to 2.75” x 10’-0 wide plate
  • CNC plasma cutting machines, 11’ x 50’ water tables
  • Numerous tandem head welding manipulators
  • Numerous single head welding manipulators
  • Tank/vessel turning roll sets, up to 100-ton capacity
  • Automated blasting system
  • Blask booth 25’ x 120’
  • Paint Booth 25’ x 120’
  • Iron workers
  • Several overhead bridge cranes, up to 50 tons capacity
  • Welding power sources for most welding processes
    • SAW
    • FCAW
    • SMAW
    • GMAW
    • GTAW
    • EWS
  • Angle iron bending rolls
  • 3 O’Clock automatic welders
  • Press brake
  • Multiple forklifts, up to 55 tons capacity
  • RT hydraulic cranes, up to 60-ton capacity
  • Scissor and snorkel personnel lifts
  • Extended boom forklifts
  • Dozer and excavators
  • Long haul trucks and trailers
  • Vertamatic welders
  • 5-axis CNC contour beveling plasma cutting table

Projects

12MG Clearview Reservoir
Civil Construction
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Before erecting the new 12MG 184' d x 63' high water reservoir, T Bailey, INC. prepped the site including clearing approximately 6.5 acres, mass excavation of over 40,000 cy, grading, and 2000LF of large diameter transmission and yard piping.

Quality Control Certifications

As part of our commitment to quality, we work toward continuous improvement and maintain compliance with industry codes and standards.

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Through experience, innovation, and planning, T BAILEY LLC delivers each project on budget, with unmatchable quality, and precise timing. Contact us and see how we can help you complete your project.

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