Conservation and Recovery Methods of Stock Tank Vapors

Oil may be lost from a tank in the gas or vapor phase form, a phenomenon which is known as evaporation loss. The evaporation loss to the atmosphere from lease tank batteries is a definite loss of our natural resources. The question, is this evaporation loss great enough to have any monetary value at the present time? Are there economical methods for recovering these vapor losses and are such methods profitable to oil producing operations? To these questions the answer is definitely yes, in lieu of the expansion of Gasoline Plants, Product Pipelines and the Petro-Chemical Plants in the West Texas