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Oil storage tanks at Fawley. Fawley refinery processes around 270,000 barrels (43,000 m 3) of crude oil a day and provides 20 per cent of the UK's refinery capacity. [1] Crude oil is transported by sea in tankers to the refinery's one-mile-long (1,600 m) marine terminal, which handles around 2,000 ship movements and 22 million tonnes of crude oil and other products every year. [8]
Robotic Hydrodemolition in Folkestone, UK. Hydrodemolition of concrete exposing the rebar.. Hydrodemolition (also known as hydro demolition, hydroblasting, hydro blasting, hydromilling, waterblasting, and waterjetting) is a concrete removal technique which utilizes high-pressure water, often containing an abrasive material, to remove deteriorated and sound concrete as well as asphalt and grout.
UK oil refineries 1938 Company Plant Year completed Capacity in 1937/8, tonnes per year Esso Petroleum Co Ltd Fawley, Hampshire 1921 700,000 Shell Stanlow, Cheshire 1924 750,000 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co/ Shell UK Ltd Shell Haven, Essex 1916 800,000 London and Thames Haven Oil Wharves Ltd Shell Haven, Essex 1921 400,000 Cory Brothers Ltd
Leeds RERF. NESS Energy Project, Aberdeen; Allerton waste recovery park, North Yorkshire [1]; Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility; Ardley ERF; Baldovie WtE (Dundee); Beddington Energy Recovery Facility (Sutton, London)
Milford Haven Refinery is situated on a 1200-acre site near Milford Haven. [2] The refinery came on stream in 1973 under Amoco's ownership. [3] A major upgrade was carried out in 1981, and a catalytic cracker was added. [3] Since then further units have been added, notably a naptha isomerisation unit and a hydrodesulphurisation unit. [3]
The oil and gas industry in the United Kingdom produced 1.42 million BOE per day [4] in 2014, of which 59% [4] was oil/liquids. In 2013 the UK consumed 1.508 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil and 2.735 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas, [5] so is now an importer of hydrocarbons having been a significant exporter in the 1980s and 1990s.
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In the mid-1970s there was a £45 million expansion of the plant to take its processing output to 130,000 barrels per day (21,000 m 3 /d). At this time, around a third of the oil it processed came from the North Sea. It was the first refinery to receive oil from British National Oil Corporation's Thistle field on 15 April 1978.