The invention discloses a cleaning device for an oil tank for petroleum refining. The cleaning device for the oil tank for petroleum refining structurally comprises supports, a movable rotary drum, anoil tank fixing shaft rod, a cleaning system, a base, a placement platform, a bottom plate and a motor, wherein the placement platform is arranged on the base through the cleaning system; the supports are perpendicularly welded to the left end and the right end of the placement platform; the tank fixing shaft rod is arranged between the two supports; the motor is fixed onto the placement platformon the outer side of one support through the bottom plate; the movable rotary drum is further arranged on the support; and the cleaning system is provided with a scrubbing structure, a rotary liftingstructure, a pressure starting structure, a linkage structure, an extruding structure and a spraying structure. The cleaning device for the oil tank for petroleum refining adopts a way of simultaneously spraying and scrubbing, and adopts horizontal linear scrubbing, so that a scrubbing range is enlarged; a wiping sponge is replaced by adopting a rotary lifting way so as to be convenient to replace, so that arms of working personnel are prevented from getting dirty; and meanwhile, a liquid after cleaning can be recovered conveniently, so that the occurrence of the phenomenon that the liquid flows everywhere by adopting a water gun is avoided.