API Std 650-2007 Welded Steel Tanks for Oil Storage

American Petroleum Institute (API) Eleventh Edition, June 2007. 394p. This Standard establishes minimum requirements for material, design, fabrication, erection, and testing for vertical, cylindrical, aboveground, closed- and open-top, welded carbon or stainless steel storage tanks in various sizes and capacities for internal pressures approximating atmospheric pressure (internal pressures not exceeding the weight of the roof plates), but a higher internal pressure is permitted when additional requirements are met