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The United Kingdom petroleum pipeline network is principally made up of three pipelines systems: the former Government Pipeline and Storage System (GPSS) now the Exolum Pipeline System; the Esso pipelines (principally the mainline and midlines), and the United Kingdom Oil Pipelines (UKOP) and associated pipelines.
The Exolum Pipeline System, formerly the CLH Pipeline System and the Government Pipelines and Storage System (GPSS), is a fuel pipeline system in the United Kingdom. [1] Originally constructed by the government to supply fuel to airfields in World War II, it is now owned by Exolum .
United Kingdom: In Scotland there is an online web based service called Vault [12] (short for Scottish Community Apparatus Data Vault), which allows registered users to specify a polygon on a map and immediately obtain an interactive map of all major undertakers owning underground assets, except the principal telecoms operators. In the rest of ...
UK oil pipeline network; Oil terminals in Ireland; CLH Pipeline System; Oil and Pipelines Agency; For details of UK gas terminals see individual articles: Bacton, CATS, Easington, Rampside, St Fergus, Theddlethorpe (closed). For details of UK Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals see individual articles: Grain LNG, South Hook LNG terminal.
The United Kingdom's National Transmission System (NTS) is the network of gas pipelines that supply gas to about forty power stations and large industrial users from natural gas terminals situated on the coast, and to gas distribution companies that supply commercial and domestic users. It covers Great Britain, i.e. England, Wales and Scotland.
The £330,000 18-mile underground pipeline from Tetney was made by O'Connor and Davies, part of British Steel Constructions. Six coke silos were built by Sir Robert McAlpine in a £200,000 contract. The sub-sea part of the Tetney pipeline was replaced in 2015.
The pipe is the longest pipeline in a tunnel in Europe and is also the longest hydraulically inserted gas pipeline in the world, for which it was awarded a Guinness World Record in November 2020. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The project was costed at around the £100 million mark in 2016, but on opening, full works, remediation and the installation of ...
The onshore oil and gas resources in the United Kingdom are located in a number of provinces corresponding to prospective sedimentary basins. Provinces and Basins (from south to north) include the Wessex-Channel Basin, Weald Basin, Worcester Basin, Cheshire Basin, East Midlands Province, West Lancashire Basin, NE England Province, Northumberland-Solway Basin, Midland Valley of Scotland, and ...