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We are OFTEC registered to install and service Fuel oil stations used by agricultural businesses. We are happy to advise you of the current regulations. We also supply and install fuel stations to meet the current legislation required by the environment agency.  We can also carry out a risk assessment of your existing tanks and fuel stations.

Storing agricultural fuel oil in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

If you store oil for agricultural use on a farm your storage facilities must comply with certain regulations if:

· in England and Wales, you store more than 1,500 litres of fuel oil and the storage tank was used or constructed on or after 1 September 1991

Older storage facilities are normally exempt from the regulations. However, you may have to carry out improvement work if your environmental regulator considers that your facilities could cause pollution.

 

Preventing pollution

Oil accounts for over one quarter of all pollution incidents in the UK. Many drains lead directly to rivers, streams or lakes. If you allow oil to enter these drains, it has the same effect as pouring it directly into the watercourse.

Oil is poisonous to fish and other wildlife and it smothers plants. Just two litres of oil could seriously pollute the volume of fresh water needed to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool and make it undrinkable.

Avoiding prosecution and clean-up costs

You may be prosecuted and fined if oil from your site enters the ground or watercourses. And you may have to pay substantial clean-up costs. The Oil Storage Regulations are designed to prevent oil spills.

 

With the rise in thefts of oil from remote locations such as farms, a purpose made fuel station not only meets the current legislation requirements when installed by a registered technician, it can also greatly improve security.