Salam Gaz LPG sphere tank in Morocco

Foundation and civil works for a 6,000-cubic-metre steel sphere for storing liquid butane gas in the Salam-Gaz plant of Fes/Meknes (Morocco).

The steel sphere for stocking pressure-liquefied gas has a diameter of 22.6m, with a top height of 25 metres from ground: twelve steel columns with round sections and a diameter of about 1 metre support the sphere.

The foundations is an underground reinforced concrete perimeter annular beam with a reverse-T section, 2.7 metres high and 6.3 metres wide.

The foundations for the plants connected with the tanks and for the walls around tank were also designed.

Services provided: Execution design and technical assistance to the implementation of civil works and foundations.

Client: PARESA S.p.A.

Site: Salam-Gaz plant of Fes/Meknes (Morocco).

Years: 2015-2016.

Cost of works: about 4 million Euros