1.0.1 This code was formulated with a view to implementing the relevant national policies, unifying specifications, and living up to safety and reliability, state-of-the-art technologies, economy and rationality in the design of oil depots.
1.0.2 This code is applicable to the design of new, extended and rebuilt oil depots.
This code is not applicable to the design of long-distance oil pipelines and oil storage and transportation facilities of oil/gas fields in petrochemical plant. It is also not applicable to underground hydrolock oil depots and natural cave oil depots.
1.0.3 Not only the requirements stipulated in this code, but those in the current relevant mandatory standards of the nation also shall be complied with for the design of oil depots.