Free-standing, double-walled fuel storage from 500 to 4,500 gallons, set beside a diesel generator so it runs longer between fills. The tank ships from Red Deer. The diesel comes from your own fuel supplier, and the tank is sized to how often they can get to you.
The tanks are one line in the fleet rather than a card per tank, because the size is chosen for the job, not taken off a shelf. Most diesel fuel tank rentals go out at 500 or 1,000 gallons. The larger sizes, up to 4,500, go where the generator is big or the fills are far apart.
Each tank is there to extend a generator's runtime. Diesel generator rentals lists the sets they sit beside. Everything else on the yard is in the full rental fleet.
A double-walled tank is one tank sealed inside another. The inner shell holds the diesel. The outer shell is the spill plan: if the inner one ever lets go, the fuel lands between the walls instead of in the ground.
Single-wall storage depends on something built around it to catch a leak, such as a lined berm or a spill tray, and someone has to supply and set that up. A double-walled tank brings its second barrier on the same truck.
Nothing gets built for it. The tank needs firm, level ground with room to work around it, and it leaves the site the way it arrived when the job is done.
Owners, prime contractors and environmental plans often have rules of their own for fuel: where it may sit, how far it must be from water and buildings, what goes under it. Double-wall settles the containment question, not every question. Check with whoever signs off the site plan before the tank is set down.
Whatever the enquiry calls it, day tank, auxiliary tank or bulk storage, the sum behind it is the same three numbers.
Find the set on the fuel consumption chart and read across at the load it will actually carry, not at its nameplate. The difference is large: on the chart, a 250 kW set burns 5.7 gal/hr at a quarter load and 18 gal/hr at full.
Twenty-four on a site that never stops. A shift's worth on one that does. For standby, as long as the longest outage you are planning for.
How often your fuel supplier can reach the site, plus a margin for the delivery that turns up late.
Multiply the three and you have the fuel the site needs on hand. Count the set's own tank toward it, since several diesel packages in the fleet already hold about a day's work in a double-wall tank of their own. The rental tank covers the rest.
| Set and burn | 500 gal | 1,000 gal |
|---|---|---|
| 60 kW50% load · 2.9 gal/hr | 172 h | 344 h |
| 150 kW75% load · 8.4 gal/hr | 59 h | 119 h |
| 250 kW75% load · 13.6 gal/hr | 36 h | 73 h |
| 500 kW75% load · 26.4 gal/hr | 18 h | 37 h |
Burn figures from the fuel consumption chart, running around the clock, rounded down. The chart is an estimate: engine make, model, age and load all move the real number, so book the fill well before the hours run out.
At the top of the range, 4,500 gal keeps a 500 kW set at 75% load going for about a week.
The fuel comes from your own supplier. On a remote site their delivery schedule is what everything else gets planned around, so the tank is sized to fit it.
Set the tank where the supplier's truck can pull up beside it, fill it and get out without crossing the work area. Settle where it goes before delivery day, not with the truck idling at the gate.
Winter roads, spring breakup and long weekends all stretch the gap between fills on a remote run. Size the tank to hold the site through the delivery that comes a day late, not only the one that arrives on time.
Name the person on site who keeps track of the fuel, the level at which they call the supplier, and who covers it on their days off. A tank nobody is watching tends to run dry at night.
The tank goes on the same written quote as the diesel set and comes out from Red Deer on the same delivery, so it is in place before the first fill. Construction site power lays out the whole package a tank usually belongs to.
Natural gas generator rentals take the fuel truck off the schedule altogether, where the site has gas the set can burn.
Builds that keep the generator running through nights and weekends, with fills fitted around crane picks, pours and gate hours.
Construction site power →Drill programs and camps at the end of a long haul, where on-site storage decides how many trips the fuel truck makes.
Mining →A standby set can run for days once the power goes. An extra tank, with fills agreed with the supplier in advance, is what keeps it running.
Emergency & standby generators →Put a tank on the same enquiry as the diesel set and both come back on one written quote.
Diesel generator rentals →No. The rental is the tank. The diesel comes from your own fuel supplier, and the tank is sized to how often they can deliver. If the site has no supplier lined up yet, sort that out before the tank's delivery date.
Work it out from three figures: the generator's fuel burn at its real load, the hours it runs each day, and the days between fills. The fuel consumption chart gives the burn. Most sites end up at 500 or 1,000 gal, and the range runs to 4,500 gal for big sets and long gaps between deliveries. Send the three figures and the sizing is free.
It depends on the set and the load. On the fuel consumption chart, a 150 kW diesel set at 75% load burns 8.4 gal/hr, so 1,000 gal lasts about five days of continuous running. A 500 kW set at the same load uses it up in about a day and a half. Treat those as estimates and plan the fill before the tank gets low.
A tank built inside a second tank. The inner one holds the fuel and the outer one catches anything that gets past it, so a leak stays contained instead of reaching the ground. Every tank in the rental fleet is double-walled. Where it may sit is still up to the site's own rules, so check those before delivery.
Each job gets its own quote. The tank size, how long it stays out, where the site is and what else ships with it all change the number, so there is no rate card on this page. With the generator on the same enquiry, both are priced together in writing.
Yes. Tanks leave from Red Deer for sites across Alberta, normally on the same delivery as the generator they will sit beside. Include the site location in the enquiry and delivery is part of the written quote.
Which generator, the load it carries, how many hours a day it runs and how often your supplier can reach the site. That is enough to size the tank and put it on a written quote, alongside the generator if you are renting that from us too.
