The article raises a topical issue - the issue of improving extinguishing oil fires and oil in tank farms, despite the progress made in fire safety for oil and petroleum products storage tanks are one of the most dangerous objects. According to statistical data the majority of fires at these facilities is quenched by means of a mobile fire fighting equipment, and the main fire extinguishing agent is air-mechanical foam of low and medium ratio, extinguishing properties are well understood and known. The world’s leading manufacturers are constantly working to develop and search for fire extin-guishing substances, methods and means of their delivery in fires on oil products storage and processing facilities. Not so long ago, in our country there is a new type of foam based on structured silica particles “solid foam” becomes relevant question is a comprehensive study of the effectiveness of extin¬guishing agents, methods and ways of delivering the fire and feed it to put out fires of oil and petro¬leum products. In the course of analyzing the use of the intended use, the frequency of use of foam extinguishing vehicles in the past 10 years cars is 25 % of the use of the intended use of vehicles, in this case against the background of reducing the number of fires found that these cars are still in demand and frequency of their use does not decrease much. In addition, the analysis of regulations governing the classification and the main types of fire intended use of vehicles leads to the conclusion about the absence of foam extinguishing vehicles in container design and chassis trailers. All this allows us to state a fact necessary to create and implement, new foam extinguishing car models with the use of foam on the basis of structured silica particles, what will increase the fire safety of oil and gas facilities, the effectiveness of actions of fire-rescue units to extinguish fires by im¬proving the cha-racteristics of the extinguishing agent.