Cushing Tank Farm

Not many people are aware of the small Oklahoma town of Cushing, unless they are in the oil business. Cushing, Oklahoma, home to only about 2000 residents, is the site of the world's largest oil storage facility. Signs outside town proclaim it the "Pipeline Crossroads of The World", since so many large transmission lines terminate and originate at the Cushing oil storage facility.

Cushing was once an oil town and boasted two refineries at one point. As the oil fields dwindled it became a good point to store oil because of it's centralized location and the number of pipelines already in place.

The tank farm can hold as much as 46.3 million barrels of oil, or enough to make gasoline to fill the tanks of half of all cars on the road in the United States. Most of the storage tanks are owned by five major companies, Blackrock, BP, Enbridge Energy Partners, Plains All American Pipeline, and Semgroup Energy Partners. Enbridge has the most amount of storage at the Cushing tank farm with 15.7 million barrels, followed by Blackrock, Plains LP, Semgroup Companies, BP, Teppco Partners, Conoco Phillips and finally Sunoco.