Energy & Power

Oil Gas Storage Market

By Segment, By Region, And Segment Forecasts, 2018 – 2026

Vertical: EnPBase Year: 201910 Sections

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Executive Summary

Oil Gas Storage Market — Snapshot

  • Market Size (2018)

    2018

    $2.91B

  • Projected (2026)

    2026

    $3.54B

  • CAGR (2018–2026)

    2.5%

    2.5%
  • Key Players

    118+

The demand for oil and gas storage is growing significantly in the global market owing to the urgent need for storage space for petroleum reserves (SPRs) capacities.

The global oil and gas storage market is projected to grow at 2.64% CAGR during the forecast period, 2020–2026. In 2019, the global oil and gas storage market was dominated by North America with a 31.3% share, followed by Middle east & Africa and Asia Pacific with shares of 25.8% and 21.5%, respectively.

The global oil and gas storage market has been segmented based on product type, storage type, and region. Based on product type, the global oil and gas storage market has been segmented into oil and natural gas. The oil segment is expected to grow at a faster rate during the forecast period. In 2019, the oil segment held a share of 57.5% of the global oil and gas storage market.

Based on storage type, the global oil and gas storage market has been segmented into underground and aboveground. The aboveground segment is expected to grow at the faster rate during the forecast period. In 2019, the aboveground segment held a 59.9% share of the global oil and gas storage market.

Key Insight

The Oil Gas Storage Market market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 2.5% from 2018 to 2026.

Market Performance Trend

Historical performance and future projections (2020–2030, USD Billion)

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Market Scope & Coverage

What this report covers

  • Geographic Coverage: This analysis covers 5 regions: Asia Pacific, South America, Europe, North America, Middle East and Africa.
  • Market Segmentation: The market is analyzed across 2 segments: Oil, Natural Gas. Forecasts are provided for each segment from 2018 to 2026.
  • Competitive Landscape: 118 leading companies are profiled, covering market positioning, strategies, and recent developments.

Market Size (USD Mn)

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Market Overview

Oil Gas Storage Market — Growth Trajectory

Oil and gas storage is a part of midstream within the oil & gas industry. In this process, the oil extracted from the upstream companies are stored in various forms and then transported wherever required. Downstream companies also use storage tanks for their operations. This includes collecting oil for further processing and marketing. The oil and gas storage market is expected to show significant growth during the forecast period.

Oil Gas Storage Market — Growth Trajectory

Oil
Natural Gas

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Market Size Trend (USD Mn)

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Market Dimensions

How this market is segmented

  • Product Type is broken down into: Oil, Natural Gas.
  • Storage Type is broken down into: Aboveground, Underground.

Geographic Analysis

Regional market breakdown

  • Asia Pacific Asia Pacific market size reached $625.80M in 2018 and is projected to reach $746.50M by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 2.2%.
  • South America South America market size reached $182.00M in 2018 and is projected to reach $205.60M by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 1.5%.
  • Europe Europe market size reached $445.40M in 2018 and is projected to reach $519.00M by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 1.9%.
  • North America North America market size reached $907.40M in 2018 and is projected to reach $1.14B by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 2.9%.
  • Middle East and Africa Middle East and Africa market size reached $748.80M in 2018 and is projected to reach $921.50M by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 2.6%.

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Research Methodology

Oil Gas Storage Market — How We Researched This Market

This report applies a rigorous multi-stage research process combining primary interviews, secondary data sources, and bottom-up market modelling to ensure accuracy and completeness across all segments and geographies.

  • Base Year

    2019

  • Historical Period

    2018 – 2019

  • Forecast Period

    2019 – 2026

  • Primary Interviews

    150+

Research Process

Historical data (2018–2019) and forecast period (2019–2026)

1

Problem Definition

  • Market scoping
  • Objective setting
  • Framework design
2

Secondary Research

  • Literature review
  • Data mining
  • Trend analysis
3

Primary Research

  • Expert interviews
  • Field visits
  • Surveys
4

Data Analysis

  • Quantitative modeling
  • Statistical testing
  • Validation
5

Insights & Reporting

  • Synthesis
  • Recommendations
  • Visualization

Research Depth

Our research process spans primary interviews with industry stakeholders combined with comprehensive secondary data analysis, validated through triangulation across multiple independent sources.

Historical vs. Forecast Data

Historical (observed)
Forecast (modelled)

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Quantitative Analysis

Regional Breakdown

Regional market breakdown for Oil Gas Storage Market.

Regional Market Size (USD Mn)

Market estimates by geography (2026)

USD Mn

InsightNorth America leads with $1.14B by 2026.

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Regional Market Data

REGION201820192026CAGRSHARE
Asia Pacific$625.80M$674.10M$746.50M2.2%21%
South America$182.00M$190.80M$205.60M1.5%6%
Europe$445.40M$474.20M$519.00M1.9%15%
North America$907.40M$1.00B$1.14B2.9%32%
Middle East and Africa$748.80M$819.30M$921.50M2.6%26%
Total$2.91B$3.16B$3.54B2.5%100%

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Segment Revenue (2026)

Oil
Natural Gas
0563112616892252

Segment Market Share

  • Oil58%
  • Natural Gas42%

Total Market Size

$3.54B

Market by Segment (2026)

APPLICATIONREVENUE ($B)GROWTH RATEMARKET PENETRATION
Oil$2.05B2.5%
47%
Natural Gas$1.49B2.5%
89%

* Revenue projections based on 2025 estimates. Growth rates represent CAGR 2024–2030. Market penetration indicates current adoption rate within addressable market segments.

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Analytics

Oil Gas Storage Market — Key Findings

Analytical insights on Oil Gas Storage Market covering market dynamics, competitive landscape, and strategic outlook.

Key Analytical Findings

The Oil Gas Storage Market market is projected to reach $3.54B by 2026, growing at 2.5% CAGR. The Oil segment holds the largest share.

Market Dynamics

The global oil and gas storage market is expected to register a notable growth rate during the forecast period, owing to the urgent need for storage space for petroleum reserves (SPRs) capacities. However, the high maintenance cost of storage is expected to restrain the growth during the forecast period. The growing demand for natural gas is expected to create a growth opportunity for the players operating in the global market.

Market Drivers

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the global oil & gas market is facing an unprecedented challenge of storing surplus oil. The market players have begun running out of storage space. For instance, in May, the U.S. West Texas Intermediate witnessed a negative territory for the first time in history, and the traders had to pay to get oil taken off their hands. The oil surplus has further created a demand shock in energy markets with both onshore and offshore storage filling quickly. Similarly, in India, refiners are flooding the market with petroleum products, which does not have enough buyers in the absence of demand in the current lockdown situation. Additionally, the storage capacity in the country is almost full at the fuel stations and other sites created by refiners. It is also estimated that the almost 85-million-barrel storage capacity of state-run companies is already full. In order to cope up with this challenging problem, various measures are being taken by refiners and other oil companies. For instance, oil companies in Texas found many steel tanks to store the surplus oil, which were kept idle earlier when shale producers stopped drilling. Currently, the oil companies are trying to store as much oil as possible in these tanks to handle the space crunch. All these factors are driving the global market for oil and gas storage, especially in the near future, when the demand will not be at its normal rate, creating a need for more storage space.

Market Opportunities

Many conventional reservoirs around the globe are depleting rapidly. The exploration and production companies are looking forward to tapping unconventional resources located in difficult terrains, such as offshore and mountain areas. The extraction of fossil fuels in such regions is a very complex procedure, and companies depend on reservoir analysis techniques to determine the feasibility of exploration and production activities of well sites.

Offshore oil and gas fossil fuel production are expected to increase at a steady rate during the study period due to the increasing need for fossil fuels. Furthermore, shale production techniques such as fracking are witnessing an increased demand from countries across the globe. For instance, in May 2018, Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia) signed a contract with Halliburton (US) to handle its hydraulic fracking needs in its unconventional gas fields. China has also been investing substantially in unconventional reservoirs to reduce its dependence on imported oil and gas. For instance, in August 2019, the China National Petroleum Corporation (China) started drilling its first shale oil well in the South Western province of Sichuan in China. Similarly, several countries across the world, such as Canada, Australia, and Saudi Arabia, are expected to gradually increase their exploration activities in the unconventional reserves, which involve shale, deep-water, and other reservoirs. Conventional oil and gas reservoirs are depleting at a steady rate, which is prompting stakeholders in the oil & gas industries from various countries are seeking opportunities to explore unconventional reservoirs, which is expected to create a growth opportunity for the players in the reservoir analysis market. The increasing exploration would require storage facilities for oil and gas. Additionally, it is anticipated that after the first quarter of 2021, the demand for oil and gas will increase, and storage space will be required to accommodate the increasing oil and gas production. Thus, the exploration of unconventional reservoirs is expected to create a growth opportunity for the players operating in the global oil and gas storage market during the study period.

Market Restraints

The global oil & gas industry is facing a storage crunch, and tanks are filing fast at a rapid rate, despite the increasing lease cost for the storing space. Millions of barrels of oil and gas have been stored while the oil and gas manufacturers are facing the uncertain struggle to find buyers among industrial users. This has ultimately impacted the operations in Saudi Arabia, where surplus oil is abundant with no buyers available. Moreover, fuel storage rates also doubled in March and April in a few onshore hubs in countries in Europe and the US, as traders rushed to secure tanks in the hope of selling their products at a higher price once the outbreak eases and demand recovers. The limited storage space and increased rates are likely to affect the global market negatively. Thus, the high storage cost is expected to restrict the growth of the global oil and gas storage market during the forecast period.

Strategic Outlook and Future Directions

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Market Value by Segment (2026)

Value (USD Mn)
Oil
Natural Gas

Companies

Key companies profiled in Oil Gas Storage Market

Profiles of 118 companies operating in the Oil Gas Storage Market market, including revenue, employee count, and market positioning where available.

Showing 118 of 118 companies

ROYAL VOPA

ROYAL VOPAK

Energy & Power

Company Headquarters: Rotterdam, Netherlands Founded: 1565 Workforce: ~5,559 Company Working: Royal Vopak is a global leader in tank storage solutions. It provides secure, clean, and efficient storage and handling bulk liquid products and gases, including chemicals, oils, gases, LNG, biofuels, and vegoils. The company has a presence in over 23 countries spread across four divisions, which are Europe & Africa, Asia & the Middle East, China & North Asia, and the Americas.

Revenue$1.5B
Employees5,559
Market CapN/A
Founded1564
Rotterdam, Netherlands
ENDRESS+HA

ENDRESS+HAUSER GROUP SERVICES AG

Energy & Power

Company Headquarters: Switzerland Founded: 1953 Workforce: ~14,328 Company Working: Endress+Hauser Group Services AG (Endress+Hauser) is one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of products, solutions, and services for industrial process measurement and automation. The company’s offerings for process automation include products, solutions, and services for flow, level, pressure and temperature measurement, process analysis, and data management. Additionally, it offers engineering services such as project management and automation services. The company offers its solutions in multiple markets, including water and wastewater, chemical, petrochemical, life science, food and beverage, power and energy, oil and gas, pulp and paper, and shipbuilding. The company’s production centers focuses on research & development, production, product management, quality assurance, and logistics, while the sales centers act as local partners for the market and customers. The company has a presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East & Africa.

Revenue$2.2B
Employees14,328
Market CapN/A
Founded1952
Switzerland
WORLDLINE

WORLDLINE

Energy & Power

Company Headquarters: France Founded: 1973 Workforce: ~11,000 Company Working: Worldline is a leading company in the payment and transactional services industry. The company’s offerings include secured payment transaction processing for banks and financial institutions, as well as transactional services in e-Ticketing and local and central public agencies. It has a presence across more than 30 countries across the world.

Revenue$4.8B
Employees11,000
Market CapN/A
Founded1972
France
Yokogawa E

Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Automotive

Company Headquarters: Japan Founded: 1915 Workforce: ~17,850 Company Working: Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Yokogawa Electric) is a company that is engaged in manufacturing distributed process control systems for industrial plants. It operates through three business segments, namely, industrial automation and control business, test and measurement business, and aviation and other business. Under the industrial automation and control business segment, the company offers a wide range of field instruments, programmable controllers, control systems, productivity-enhancing software, and aftermarket services. In the field instruments product category, it offers flow meters, process analyzers, and differential pressure transmitters. The company offers gas calorimeters under the product sub-category of process analyzers through its industrial automation and control business segment. Its products have applications in oil & gas, oil & gas downstream, LNG supply chain, chemical, power, water & wastewater, mining & metal, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, pulp & paper, and iron & steel industries. Yokogawa Electric has a wide global presence and direct operations in more than 60 countries around the globe. It primarily operates through its vast network that comprises dealers, exporters, distributors, and 113 subsidiaries. The company invested almost USD 236.5 million in research and development in the fiscal year 2019.

Revenue$0.0B
Employees17,850
Market CapN/A
Founded1914
Japan
ABB Ltd.

ABB Ltd.

Energy & Power

Company Headquarters: Zürich, Switzerland Founded: 1988 Workforce: 134,800 Company Working: ABB Ltd., is a pioneering technology leader that works closely with utility, industry, transport, and infrastructure customers. The company has its operations in four segments, namely, electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation, and power grids. Under electrification products, ABB manufactures and sells products and services including electric vehicle charging, solar inverters, modular substation packages, switchgear, UPS solutions, circuit breakers, control products, wiring accessories, enclosures and cabling systems, and intelligent home and building solutions designed to integrate and automate the lighting, heating and ventilation, and security and data communication networks. For the industrial automation sector, the company develops and sells integrated automation and electrification systems and solutions. These systems and solutions are process and discrete control solutions, advanced process control software and manufacturing execution systems, sensing, measurement and analytical instrumentation and solutions, electric ship propulsion systems, as well as they are solutions for modern machine and factory automation and large turbochargers. The company offers a complete range of transformers for transmission and distribution of power. ABB manufactures, both, liquid-filled, and dry-type transformers. Th company also provides services related to life-cycle costs and replacement parts and components. The company has delivered more than 20,000 power transformers, which include over twenty 800 kV UHVDC and over five hundred 735 - 765 kV AC units. The company has operations in more than 100 countries. ABB Ltd. chiefly operates in regions such as the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The subsidiaries of the firm include B&R, Busch Jaeger, Baldor Electric Company, Thomas & Betts, and Power-One Inc.

Revenue$26.1B
Employees134,800
Market CapN/A
Founded1987
Zürich, Switzerland
LARSEN & T

LARSEN & TOUBRO LIMITED

Energy & Power

Company Headquarters: Mumbai, India Founded: 1946 Workforce: ~49,921 Company Working: Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) is a diversified enterprise involved in construction, technology, engineering, and manufacturing areas. It is also engaged in the manufacturing of electrical and electronic equipment. L&T classifies its business operations into ten reportable segments: Infrastructure, Power, Heavy Engineering, Electrical and Automation, Hydrocarbon, IT and Technology Services, Financial Services, Defense Engineering, Developmental Projects, and Others. The company provides services for several sectors including hydrocarbon, infrastructure, power, process industries, and defense. The company provides turnkey solutions to industries such as fertilizer, refinery, chemical, petrochemical, oil and gas, thermal and nuclear power, aerospace, and defense. L&T is also involved in the manufacturing of switchgear components and switchboards, electronic energy meters protection systems, control and automation products, and industrial valves, welding, and cutting equipment. Rubber Processing Machinery is a part of the Machinery and Industrial Products Division of L&T. It offers a wide range of Rubber Processing Machinery. The unit was incorporated in 1972 as a joint venture between L&T and McNeil Akron Inc. of USA. Subsequently in 1995, L&T acquired the total ownership of the JV and made it as a Strategic Business Unit (SBU), known as Rubber Processing Machinery, retaining its popular name of L&T RPM. L&T RPM also offers Automation Solutions primarily for Tire Manufacturers. The company’s Automation Solutions include end-to-end Tire Handling Systems. Rubber Processing Machinery has over three decades of experience in producing world class machinery tailor made to customer requirements. It has a wide customer base spanning more than 44 countries. Geographically, the company classifies its operations into two regions: India and Foreign Countries. In FY2022, the company generated 64.4% of its revenue from India and 35.6% from Foreign Countries. L&T primarily operates in India and also has presence in Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Americas. The company has manufacturing facilities in India, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Malaysia, and the UK and has its customers in 50 countries. L&T operates hydrocarbon engineering and project management centers in Mumbai, Vadodara, and Chennai and fabrication yards in Hazira, Gujarat, and Kattupalli, Tamil Nadu. It also operates a power equipment manufacturing facility at Hazira, Gujarat, India.

Revenue$10.9B
Employees49,921
Market CapN/A
Founded1945
Mumbai, India
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