An Oil Depot is an industrial facility for the storage of oil products and from which these products are usually transported to end users or further storage facilities. An Oil Depot typically has tankage, either above ground or underground, and gantries for the discharge of products into road tankers or other vehicles (such as barges) or pipelines.

Oil Depots are usually situated close to oil refineries or in locations where tankers containing products can discharge their cargo. Some depots are attached to pipelines from which they draw their supplies and depots can also be fed by rail, by barge and by road tanker (sometimes known as "bridging") A refinery is a building and/or the equipment used for refining or processing specific products. ... In electronics, especially audio and sound recording, an impedance bridging or voltage bridging connection is one which maximizes voltage transfer to the load. ...

Most Oil Depots have road tankers operating from their grounds and these vehicles transport products to petrol stations or other users.

Most airports also have their own dedicated oil depots (or "Tank farms") where aviation fuel (Jet A1) is stored prior to being discharged into aircraft fuel tanks. Fuel is transported from the depot to the aircraft either by road tanker or via a hydrant system. Yellow Fire Hydrant A fire hydrant (or colloquially in the US, fire plug) is a source of water provided by most metropolitan communities to enable firefighters to tap into the municipal water supply to assist in extinguishing a fire. ...