Petrojet has set a Guinness World Record for manufacturing and establishing the world’s largest floating roof tank located in Ras Badran, South Sinai, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.

The capacity of the floating roof tank is 175,000 cubic meters and can hold more than one million barrels (bbl) of crude oil.

The tank’s diameter is 115 meters and its weight exceeds 3000 tons.

Petrojet utilized the unprecedented method of double-deck floating system to construct the tank using more than 240 hydraulic jacks.