Construction of the world’s largest oil storage tanks completed in the vicinity of the South Korean city of Yosu (455 kilometers south of Seoul), said the state Korea Petroleum Corporation.This underground, like a tunnel repository, with a height of 30 m, width of 18 m and a length of 14 km and can accommodate 19.9 million barrels. After attaching it to your already existing in Yosu store where you can hold 49.7 million barrels of oil, enough to ensure the normal needs of the country for 23 days. It will help ensure the stability of oil supplies in case of emergency or rising prices for hydrocarbons. So far, the largest in the region were the repositories of bunker oil on the South Korean island of Kodzhedo capacity of 47.5 million barrels of storage capacity and in Japanese Tomakomai at 40 million barrels, transmits PRIME-TASS.
