Project Overview In 2025, J W Hinchliffe Tanks completed a major fuel tank installation project for an NHS Trust in the north of England. The existing hospital tank farm contained four large heavy fuel oil tanks, each with a capacity of approximately 100,000 litres. These tanks needed to be decommissioned, cleaned, removed and disposed of
Hospital Fuel Tank Installation and Tank Farm Replacement Read More »
Project Overview In 2025, J W Hinchliffe Tanks completed a complex fuel tank replacement project for a hospital in Yorkshire.The existing 60,000-litre bulk fuel tank had failed an integrity inspection. In addition, the hospital had experienced long-standing problems supplying fuel to boilers positioned on a second-floor mezzanine.Therefore, JWH developed a new solution that combined a
Hospital Bulk Fuel Storage Tank Replacement on a Restricted Site Read More »
Project Overview In August 2024, J W Hinchliffe Tanks completed a specialist fuel tank decommissioning project at Royal Sovereign Lighthouse, several kilometres off the Eastbourne coast.The lighthouse contained two 10,000-litre doughnut-shaped steel fuel tanks within its central shaft. These tanks had previously supplied fuel to the lighthouse generators and heating system.Robore Ltd, the principal demolition
Offshore Fuel Tank Decommissioning at Royal Sovereign Lighthouse Read More »
Below is an insight into the process of what a fuel tank refurbishment looks like. We were asked by a customer in Birmingham to safely empty and clean internally an 8000 litre diesel storage tank, as well as polish and clean the fuel. Not only was the tank to be cleaned internally, but the outside
Project Overview J W Hinchliffe Tanks completed a major tank farm decommissioning project at an NHS hospital in the Midlands.The tank farm contained four 160,000-litre fuel tanks within a busy construction environment. Numerous other contractors were also working on the site, so careful planning and safe access were essential.The overall project involved removing approximately 200,000
Following continued boiler failures and the discovery of water contamination in the oil storage tanks, JWH Tanks were recently contracted by a regional Police force to undertake the internal cleaning of two 18,000 litre oil storage tanks situated in a basement, combined with the polishing of 16,000 litres of oil using our mobile centrifuge. Despite
Underground petrol tank removal combines the services of both cleaning and removing tanks. This example shows a number of relatively small underground petrol tanks (2000 & 4000 gallons) being cleaned internally, placed under gas free certification following a series of atmospheric monitoring tests, excavated and removed from site for disposal at a licensed waste facility. Once we have completed
Oil Tank Removal at a Television Studio. We were recently contracted to carry out an oil tank removal in order to dispose of two 28,000 gallon gas oil tanks used to feed both boilers and back up generators. The tanks were situated within a building at a television studios, which required the oil tank
We are regularly contracted to undertake the safe opening of tanks previously deemed decommissioned. The process of making a petrol tank safe by removing residual product and filling the void with concrete has been common practice for many years. Unfortunately sub standard materials and ill informed contractors have left many tanks in a dangerous state, with large voids filling
A recent project in Cheshire required the removal of two water filled underground fuel tanks. The site wasn’t particularly big and the work also required a number of vehicles to manoeuvre on site. This required the tanks to be taken out with minimal disruption to the forecourt apron, thus still allowing vehicle movements at particular
