United Oil Supply Company Ltd. started its operations in 2006 in Hamriyah Free Zone, Phase 1, Sharjah, U.A.E. United Oil Supply Company Ltd is a bulk storage installation to store and distribute various liquid petroleum products (primary base oil). Bulk petroleum products arrive in vessels and discharge into the vertical storage mild steel tanks with fixed cone roofs. Products are also received through road tankers that are discharged directly into the tanks. The tanks have fitted with level gauges and are also equipped with foam pourers. All the tanks are located within a dyke wall.
The safety and firefighting features of the tanks includes fire hydrants and foam pourers connected to pressurized foam bladder tank.
There is an elaborate firefighting facility consisting of electrical pump and backed up by a diesel operated pump. There is a jockey pump which keeps the line pressurized at all times. Manual call points are located at strategic points of the plot and smoke detectors are also installed at the facility.
There are seven pumps present at the facility, all of them are used for truck-loading and offloading operations. There are six loading points at the site.