There are two internationally recognized standards covering tank gauging in atmospheric tanks. From the American Petroleum Institute, there is API MPMS chapter 3.1B and API MPMS chapter 7, and from ...
API's pressure vessel and tank committee recently concluded a 5-year effort to revise Standard 650, which provides design rules to give reasonable margins against failure of petroleum storage tanks ...
API 2610 was originally developed to forestall efforts on the part of Congress to create a national aboveground storage tank (AST) law in early 1990s. Because it was anticipated to be "the standard ...