Based on the analysis of a nonmetal oil tank blasting accident occurred by induction lightning at Huangdao Oil Deport, this paper puts forward lightning protecting measures of nonmetal oil tanks at oil deports according to the characteristics of the tanks, and discusses the integrative lightning protecting technique and method of nonmetal oil storage equipment.

Reasonably defining reinforcing rings for metal tanks is important in avoiding less stability of tank shells so as to guarantee safe operation.

Computing the oil volume of inner floating roof metal tank manually needs repetitive table search, which is a time-consuming process with a certain error rate.