Petrochemical storage tanks are seen at the Suncor Energy chemical plant near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October 7, 2021. REUTERS/Todd Korol 

Locals chat after collecting water from a storage tank at an informal settlement, ahead of the November municipal elections in Lawley township, near Johannesburg, South Africa September 30, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko 

Boys walk past a water storage tank at an informal settlement, ahead of the November municipal elections in Lawley township, near Johannesburg, South Africa September 30, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko 

Storage tanks are seen at Essar Oil UK’s Stanlow oil refinery near Ellesmere Port, Britain, September 27, 2021. REUTERS/Phil Noble 

Storage tanks are seen at the Dragon Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility at Waterston, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, Britain, September 20, 2021. REUTERS/Rebecca Naden 

Storage tanks are seen at the Dragon Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility at Waterston, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, Britain, September 20, 2021. REUTERS/Rebecca Naden 

Storage tanks are seen at the Dragon Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility at Waterston, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, Britain, September 20, 2021. REUTERS/Rebecca Naden 

Workers weld near an oxygen storage tank at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, September 3, 2021. Picture taken on September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis 

A view shows fuel storage tanks in Dora, Lebanon August 20, 2021. Picture taken August 20, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Issam Abdallah 

A view shows fuel storage tanks in Zahrani, Lebanon, August 11, 2021. Picture taken August 11, 2021. REUTERS/Aziz Taher 

An aerial view shows storage tanks at the oil terminal of Europe Asia Pipeline Company (EAPC) off the Mediterranean coast in Ashkelon, Israel June 10, 2021. Picture taken June 10, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

Storage tanks at the oil terminal of Europe Asia Pipeline Company (EAPC) are seen during a sailing in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Ashkelon, Israel May 19, 2021. Picture taken May 19, 2021. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

The storage tanks for treated water are seen through a window at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan March 1, 2021. Picture taken March 1, 2021. REUTERS/Sakura Murakami 

The storage tanks for treated water are seen at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan March 1 2021. Picture taken March 1, 2021. REUTERS/Sakura Murakami 

The storage tanks for treated water are seen at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan March 1, 2021. Picture taken March 1, 2021. REUTERS/Sakura Murakami 

People queue to fill containers with water from a storage tank during an outage electricity network in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico February 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez 

People queue to fill containers with water from a storage tank during an outage electricity network in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico February 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez 

People queue to fill containers with water from a storage tank during an outage electricity network in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico February 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez 

A man fills a plastic container with water from a storage tank during an outage electricity network in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico February 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez 

A tanker on the Schuylkill River is seen with refinery storage tanks in the background at the mouth of Mingo Creek in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 31, 2020. Picture taken October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Dane Rhys 

A view of a refinery storage tank yard next to the the Mingo Creek in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 31, 2020. Picture taken October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Dane Rhys 

The logo of the CO2-free Hydrogen Energy Supply-chain Technology Research Association (HySTRA) is seen on a liquefied hydrogen storage tank built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries at the hydrogen receiving terminal at the Kobe Airport Island in Kobe, western Japan January 22, 2021. Picture taken January 22, 2021. REUTERS/Yuka Obayashi 

A storage tank is pictured at the Gomel Transneft oil pumping station, which moves crude through the Druzhba pipeline westwards to Europe, near Mozyr, Belarus January 4, 2020. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko 

A worker fuels up a storage tank of a gas station in Beirut, Lebanon October 7, 2020. Picture taken October 7, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir 

Gas storage tanks are seen at Azzawiya oil refinery, in Zawiyah west of Tripoli, Libya July 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny 

Crude oil storage tanks are seen at Azzawiya oil refinery, in Zawiyah, west of Tripoli, Libya July 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny 

The moon rises behind the storage tanks of a local oil refinery in Omsk, Russia June 5, 2020. Picture taken June 5, 2020. REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko 

Crude oil storage tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at the Cushing oil hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, U.S. April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Drone Base 

Crude oil storage tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at the Cushing oil hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, U.S. April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Drone Base 

Crude oil storage tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at the Cushing oil hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, U.S. April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Drone Base 

Crude oil storage tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at the Cushing oil hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, U.S. April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Drone Base 

Crude oil storage tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at the Cushing oil hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, U.S. April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Drone Base 

Crude oil storage tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at the Cushing oil hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, U.S. April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Drone Base 

Fuel storage tanks are pictured in Algiers, Algeria April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina 

A sticker reads crude oil on the side of a storage tank in the Permian Basin in Mentone, Loving County, Texas, U.S. November 22, 2019. Picture taken November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Angus Mordant 

A worker is seen near storage tanks for radioactive water at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan January 15, 2020. Picture taken January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Aaron Sheldrick 

Workers are seen near storage tanks for radioactive water at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan January 15, 2020. Picture taken January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Aaron Sheldrick 

Storage tanks for radioactive water are seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan January 15, 2020. Picture taken January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Aaron Sheldrick 

An employee of Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) uses a geiger counter next to storage tanks for radioactive water at TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan January 15, 2020. Picture taken January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Aaron Sheldrick 

Fuel storage tanks sit near the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 booster rocket on historic Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. January 18, 2020. REUTERS/Steve Nesius 

A storage tank is pictured at the Gomel Transneft oil pumping station, which moves crude through the Druzhba pipeline westwards to Europe, near Mozyr, Belarus January 4, 2020. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko 

A storage tank is pictured at the Gomel Transneft oil pumping station, which moves crude through the Druzhba pipeline westwards to Europe, near Mozyr, Belarus January 4, 2020. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko 

Storage tanks are seen at the Joint stock company "Mozyr oil refinery" near the town of Mozyr, Belarus January 4, 2020. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko 

Members of the charity "Gift of the Givers" offload water storage tanks at a school in drought-stricken Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, November 14, 2019. Picture taken November 14, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 

A storage tank, which was reportedly delivered by "Mikhail Dudin" cargo ship with nuclear wastes from Germany onboard, is loaded off a vessel in Saint Petersburg, Russia November 28, 2019. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov 

A storage tank, which was reportedly delivered by "Mikhail Dudin" cargo ship with nuclear wastes from Germany onboard, is loaded off a vessel in Saint Petersburg, Russia November 28, 2019. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov 

A man carries cement as he works on making steps inside a water storage tank in Aurangabad, India, August 1, 2019. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas 

Carbon dioxide storage tanks are seen at a cement plant and carbon capture facility in Wuhu, Anhui province, China September 11, 2019. Picture taken September 11, 2019. REUTERS/David Stanway 

A worker walks past storage tanks at Dangote oil refinery in Ibeju Lekki district, on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria August 7, 2019. Picture taken August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja 

An Oiltanking storage tank is pictured on Jurong Island in Singapore July 15, 2019. Picture taken July 15, 2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su 

Industrial tanks are seen at a Contanda storage terminal facility by the Houston Ship Channel in Houston, Texas, U.S., May 5, 2019. REUTERS/Loren Elliott 

CORRECTION A previous version of this graphic incorrectly labeled the amount of oil storage capacity added nationwide in the description. It should be 90 million barrels not 90,000 barrels. The U.S. shale boom has prompted terminal operators to add more than 90,000 barrels of oil storage capacity nationwide from 2015 to 2018, federal data shows. 

Federal and state fines for air, water and waste violations at U.S. petroleum storage facilities in 2019 have already surpassed those of last year. U.S. data show, and could continue to rise as investigators probe recent disasters. 

Petroleum storage operators in the U.S. Gulf Coast are expanding at least 23 facilities in Texas and seven in Louisiana, and beginning construction at two new sites, as oil production continues to rise. 

Razor barbed wire are placed on a fence at a fuel storage tanks plant in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 21, 2019. Picture taken February 21, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

A local travels on a tanker fuel truck outside a fuel storage tanks plant in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 21, 2019. Picture taken February 21, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

A watch tower is seen at a main entrance of a fuel storage tanks plant in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 22, 2019. Picture taken February 22, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

Tanker fuel trucks are parked outside a fuel storage tanks plant in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 21, 2019. Picture taken February 21, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

Locals spend time in the ocean shore in front of a fuel storage tanks plant in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 22, 2019. Picture taken February 22, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

A tanker fuel truck is parked outside a fuel storage tanks plant in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 21, 2019. Picture taken February 21, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado