Framingham Oil Tank Removal
OBIE Heating & Air

Offering underground & above oil tank removal, abandoned heating tank decommissioning. 

Many people do not even know that an underground storage tank is on their property. Many times the tank does not become an issue until the home owner decides to sell their home and at that time has an inspection done on their home. These inspections are often done one to two weeks before closing. Before finalizing the sale of a house, lending institutions and home buyers may want sellers to remove or decommission the abandoned heating oil tank.

  A leaking underground oil tank is an expensive problem that a homeowner can have, though most residential underground heating oil tanks have not leaked and can be decommissioned in place or removed. Tanks suspected of leaking should be removed from the ground rather than abandoned in place. A tank leakage can be detected through soil tests taken from around the tank or from an internal inspection and soil test from under the oil tank.

Both removal and abandonment in place are methods of decommissioning an underground storage tank. If abandonment in place is selected as the method of decommissioning, the tank may either be filled with an inert solid material, such as sand, concrete, slurry, foam or left empty. In both cases when abandoning a tank in place, the interior of the tank must be triple rinsed and washed to remove as much residual product and bottom sludge as possible. The tank must be permanently capped below grade to prevent accidental refilling.