According to the public relations report of Petro Omid Asia Holding, Engineer Ayub Rabbani, head of the Omid crude oil storage complex (Ganaweh), while presenting the above statistics, added:
The construction of the Omid strategic crude oil storage facility with a storage capacity of 10,000,000 barrels of light and heavy crude oil was started in Bushehr province, km 29 of Ganaveh-Gachsaran road in 2015 and was put into operation in February 2015.
This storage facility was built with the aim of supporting and increasing the capacity of the crude oil export terminal of Kharg Island in the vicinity of the oil transmission lines of the National Company of Southern Oil-rich Regions and is considered the largest crude oil storage unit in the private sector.
Omid Reservoir has 14 floating roof steel tanks including: 8 tanks of one million barrels, 2 tanks of 500,000 barrels and 4 tanks of 250,000 barrels. In addition to the above tanks, a dedicated 66 KV substation unit, a pump house unit with 8 1.2 MW electro pumps, a crude oil flow measurement unit for input and output, Tank Gauging System to control crude oil inventory inside the tanks, a room Mechanized control for receiving and sending crude oil, automatic valves (Motorized Operation Valve), crude oil recovery system from possible pollution (Oily Water), equipped laboratory to perform various tests related to the physical and chemical properties of crude oil received and sent from Among the facilities and equipment of Omid Reservoir.
According to the policy and strategy of the Ministry of Oil of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding the removal of restrictions from the Kharg oil terminal and the increase of the country's export capacity, in the year 1400 crude oil will be transferred to the Jask export terminal through several routes using the 1000 km Gore- JASK was successfully completed, and in this project, Omid Reservoir Pump House was used as a substitute due to the fact that the number one pump house of the oil company was not ready.
The Omid Reservoir has provided suitable conditions for creating a work environment and removing deprivation in the region by using the power of experienced, expert and local forces, and according to the existing infrastructure, it has the possibility of increasing the capacity from 10 to 20 million barrels.
