# The Texas storage tank register — 43,273 tanks

> 43,273 petroleum storage tanks on 16,121 facilities hold a TCEQ delivery certificate. What the register records, and what it does not.

## The tank register

**43,273** tanks across **16,121** facilities — about 2.7 per site.

### What a delivery certificate is

It is the document that authorises fuel to be delivered into a tank. A
facility without one cannot lawfully be filled, which makes this register a
fair proxy for « which tanks are actually in service »:
43,173 of the 43,273 are marked in use.

### ⚠️ One row is not one tank

The Commission publishes 69,143 rows for 43,273 physical tanks. A
compartmented tank appears once per product it holds — petrol in one
compartment, diesel in another — and some rows repeat outright. We group
by facility and tank number, and carry the products as a set:
**7,384** tanks hold more than one.

That is a normalisation, not an alteration: no value is
changed, and the raw file is one click away. It matters because counting rows
instead of tanks would overstate the register by 60 %.

### What is in them

| Product recorded | Tanks | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gasoline | 22,396 | 51.8% |
| Diesel | 15,196 | 35.1% |
| Not stated | 3,857 | 8.9% |
| Empty | 764 | 1.8% |
| Other Petro Subst | 442 | 1.0% |
| >e10 | 174 | 0.4% |
| Used Oil | 124 | 0.3% |
| Bio Diesel | 104 | 0.2% |
| New Oil | 76 | 0.2% |
| Hazardous Subst | 54 | 0.1% |

### Tanks at sites with a leak case

**16,846** of the 43,273 tanks sit at a facility
that also has an LPST case on record — 38.9%. Of the
sites, 6,822 have both, and 404 have a leak case that is
still open.

A tank at a site with a past leak is not itself a problem: most
of those cases are closed, and a closed case is one the regulator considers
finished. The pairing is worth knowing, not alarming.
[How to read an open case](/open.md).

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Fonte: Leaking Petroleum Storage Tank Sites and PST Delivery Certificates — Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Recolha: 2026-08-21