Primary oil spill barrier for shirashima oil storage base

摘要

Shirashima oil storage terminal was completed inAugust 1996. It is located on the otherwise uninhabited shirashimaisland about 8km off coast of the Kita Kyushu. This on-ocean oilstorage terminal is one part of the national oil storage base project.The barge shaped floating oil storage tanks are surrounded by aprimary oil spill barrier of floating steel and a secondary breakwater barrier.Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. manufactured the primary oilspill barrier for this terminal.