Oil terminals in the United Kingdom

Oil terminals are key facilities for the import, export, storage, blending, transfer and distribution of oil and petroleum products. Many terminals are located at coastal sites, such as Teesside and the lower Thames, to allow the offloading and loading of coastal shipping. Inland terminals, located around major cities, such as Birmingham and Manchester, facilitate the distribution of products to local industrial and commercial users. Many terminals have road tanker loading equipment for local distribution of products such as petrol, diesel, and heating oil. The terminals are connected through a network of underground pipelines to enable the transfer of oil and refined products across Britain.

## List of oil terminals in the United Kingdom

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The following is a list of oil and petroleum product terminals in the UK

Acronyms used in the list include:

* BPA British Pipelines Agency
* CLH Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos
* GPSS Government Pipelines and Storage System
* LCC Lissan Coal Company
* OPA Oil and Pipelines Agency
* PSD Petroleum Storage Depot

Oil terminals in the United Kingdom  Terminal  | Location (County or Unitary Authority)  | Operator  | Facilities and operations  | References

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Aberdeen  | Aberdeen City  | Certas Energy  | Storage  | [1][2]
Aberdeen  | Aberdeen City  | Asco Oils  | Storage, 31 tanks, total 26,880 m³  | [1] [3][2]
Aldermaston  | West Berkshire  | GPSS  | Decommissioned  | [4] [5]
Angle Bay  | Pembrokeshire  | BP  | Crude oil tanker offloading facility, tanks in Fort Popham and Kilpaison, Angle Bay, transfer of crude to former Llandarcy Refinery by pipeline. Terminal and pipeline decommissioned 1986  | [6]
Avonmouth  | Bristol  | Valero  | Storage, 8 tanks, Gasoline, diesel, kerosene and gas oil  | [1] [7] [2]
Avonmouth  | Bristol  | Esso  | Storage 190 tanks  | [1] [2]
Bacton | Norfolk  | Operated by BPA  | Gas terminal, condensate separation, storage and export by pipeline to North Walsham  | [8]
Belfast  | Belfast  | Valero  | Storage, 26 tanks  | [1][2]
Belfast  | Belfast  | Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)  | Storage, 50 tanks, 65,216 m³  | [1] [3] [9][2]
Belfast  | Belfast  | Puma Energy  | Storage, 20 tanks, 155,000 m³  | [1] [3] [2]
Berwick Wood  | South Gloucestershire  | CLH Pipeline System | Storage and pumping  | [1]
Birmingham | Birmingham  | ExxonMobil, Esso  | Storage, 17 tanks, 50,00 m3 | [1] [9] [2]
Blyth  | Northumberland  | Geos Group  | Storage, 15 million litre capacity  | [1] [10] [2]
Bramhall | Greater Manchester  | CLH Pipeline System, Exolum  | Storage and pipeline transfer, 7 partly buried tanks  | [1] [11] [9]
Brighton (Shoreham)  | Brighton & Hove  | Local Fuel  | Storage and road tanker loading  | [1] [3] [12]
Buncefield | Hertfordshire  | BP  | Storage  | [1] [2]
Campbeltown  | Argyll and Bute  | Operated by OPA | Supports Royal Navy  | [3]
Canvey Island  | Essex  | Oikos Storage  | Ship loading, offloading, storage  | [1] [13] [2]
Cardiff  | Cardiff  | Greenergy | Rail fed  | [1] [14]
Cardiff  | Cardiff  | Prax Petroleum  |  | [1]
Cardiff  | Cardiff  | Valero  | Import of road fuels, including petrol, ultra low sulphur diesel (ULSD), biofuels, and heating fuels, for distribution  | [1]
Carrington  | Greater Manchester  | Essar Oil UK  | On Manchester ship canal, ship loading offloading, propylene | [15]
Cloghan Point | Antrim  | LCC Group  | Storage, 4 tanks, fuel oil for Ballylumford and Kilroot power stations.  | [1] [16]
Clydebank  | West Dunbartonshire  | Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)  | Storage, 25 tanks, 56,257 m³  | [1] [3] [9][2]
Colnbrook  | London Borough of Hillingdon  | BP, operated by BPA  | Rail offloading  | [17]
Cowes  | Isle of Wight  | MFG  |  | [1]
Cruden Bay  | Aberdeenshire  | Ineos | Booster station, oil from offshore and Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) from St Fergus via pipelines, sent to Kinneil terminal by pipeline  | [18]
Dalston  | Cumbria  | Petroineos Fuels  | Rail offloading from Grangemouth  | [1] [2]
Dagenham  | Greater London  | Stolthaven Terminals  | Ship offloading, storage 60 to 11,000 m3, tanker loading  | [1] [3] [2]
Dalmeny  | Edinburgh  | Ineos  | Crude storage and ship loading  | [19]
Eastham | Cheshire West & Chester  | Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)  | Storage, 157 tanks, 325,198 m³  | [1] [3] [9] [2]
Ellesmere Port  | Cheshire West & Chester  | Stanlow Terminals (was Essar Oil UK)  | Stanlow Oil refinery storage  | [1] [2]
Falmouth  | Cornwall  | World Fuel Services  | Storage, 27 tanks, 70,000 m³  | [1] [3] [2]
Fawley  | Hampshire  | ExxonMobil, Esso  | Oil refinery storage  | [1] [9] [2]
Finnart Ocean | Argyll and Bute  | Petroineos Fuels  | Storage and pipeline transfer to Grangemouth  | [1][2]
Flotta oil terminal | Orkney Islands  | Repsol Sinopecuk  | Oil by pipeline from offshore, export by ship. Capacity 500,000 barrels per day, commissioned December 1976, produces stabilised crude and propane  | [20] [21]
Furzebrook  | Dorset  | BP  | Rail loading from Wytch Farm (facility decommissioned)  | [22]
Garelochhead  | Argyll and Bute  | Operated by OPA  | Supports adjacent Naval Base  | [3]
Gatwick Airport  | West Sussex  | Operated by BPA  | Distribution  | [17]
Goostrey  | Cheshire East  | Shell  | Built in 1955 by Shell connected to GPSS, decommissioned  | [23]
Gosport  | Hampshire  | Operated by OPA  | Supports Gosport Naval Base  | [3]
Grain  | Kent  | BP  | Ship offloading, rail loading  | [24]
Grangemouth  | Falkirk  | Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)  | Storage, 46 tanks, 112,892 m³  | [1] [3] [9][2]
Grangemouth  | Falkirk  | Petroineos  | Oil refinery  | [1][2]
Grangemouth  | Falkirk  | E. D. & F Man Terminal UK  | Storage, 23 tanks, 15,900 m³ decommissioned?  | [3]
Grays  | Thurrock  | Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)  | Ship offloading, storage 310,000 m3 in 51 tanks 1,700 to 20,800 m3, road tanker loading. Typical storage gasoline, ethanol, ester, ultra low sulphur diesel, dyed gas oil, blended biodiesel and Jet A1 kerosene  | [1] [13] [3] [9] [2]
Great Yarmouth  | Norfolk  | Asco Oils  | Storage, 35 tanks 11,034 m³  | [1]
Hallen  | South Gloucestershire  | CLH Pipeline System, Exolum  | Storage and pumping  | [25] [9] [2]
Hamble | Hampshire  | BP  | Supply by pipeline from Fawley refinery, and 16-inch pipeline from Wytch Farm, export by pipeline and tanker filling  | [1] [2]
Harwich | Essex  | Haltermann Carless  | Oil refinery, condensate trains from North Walsham  | [1] [2]
Haydock  | Lancashire  | Shell-Mex and BP  | Storage and distribution, opened 1969 closed c.1980  | [26]
Heathrow airport  | London Borough of Hillingdon  |  | Storage and distribution  | [17]
Holybourne  | Hampshire  | Star energy  | Rail loading (not regularly used)  | [22]
Holyhead  | Anglesey  | World Fuel Services  | Storage and tank loading  | [1]
Humber  | North Lincolnshire  | Phillips 66 | Refinery  | [1]
Hythe  | Hampshire  | Esso  |  | [9] [2]
Immingham  | North Lincolnshire  | Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)  | Storage, 240 tanks, 628,354 m³  | [1] [3] [9]
Immingham  | North Lincolnshire  | Phillips 66  | Storage, tanker loading, rail tanker loading  | [1] [27] [2]
Inverness  | Highland  | Certas Energy  | Storage, 20 tanks  | [1][2]
Jarrow  | Tyne and Wear  | Prax Petroleum  | Storage, 17 tanks, 45,000 m³  | [1] [2]
Kingsbury | Warwickshire  | Essar Oil UK / Shell

Valero

Phillips 66 / Total

| 14 tanks, 100 million litres, co-mingled product, eight vehicle loading gantries  | [1] [2]
Kingston upon Hull  | Kingston upon Hull  | IBL Bulk liquids  | Storage, 120 tanks, 34,500m3 | [3]
Kinneil | Falkirk  | Ineos  | Crude Oil processing, original capacity 500,000 barrels per day. Products: stabilised crude, propane and butane. Commissioned Autumn 1975  | [19] [21]
Lerwick  | Shetland  | Certas Energy  |  | [2]
Lerwick  | Shetland  | Petersons  |  | [2]
Lindsey  | North Lincolnshire  | Total Lindsey Oil Refinery  | Oil refinery  | [1]
Lindsey  | North Lincolnshire  | Prax  |  | [9] [2]
Liverpool  | Merseyside  | World Fuel Services  | Storage, 29 tanks, 50,527 m³  | [1] [3] [2]
Loch Ewe  | Highland  | Operated by OPA  | Supports Royal Navy  | [3]
Loch Striven  | Argyll and Bute  | Operated by OPA  | Supports Royal Navy  | [3]
Londonderry  | County Londonderry  | LCC Group  | Storage, 11 tanks, capacity of 86,000 tonnes  | [1] [28] [9] [2]
Manchester  | Greater Manchester  | Valero  | Trafford Wharf on Manchester Ship Canal, storage  | [1] [2]
Milford Haven  | Pembrokeshire  | Puma Energy  | Storage, 55 tanks, 1,500,000 m³  | [1] [3] [2]
Milford Haven  | Pembrokeshire  | Valero  | Distribution terminal associated with oil refinery  | [1] [2]
Mossmorran | Fife  | ExxonMobil  | Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) condensate processing  | [29]
Nigg  | Highland  | Repsol Sinopec  | Built in 1979 to accept Beatrice crude via pipeline  | [30]
Northampton  | Northamptonshire  | Essar Oil UK  | 8 storage tanks, 4 ethanol tanks, total storage 28.6 million litres, 5 loading bays  | [1] [15] [2]
North Shields | Tyne and Wear  | Esso  | Decommissioned, blown up by the IRA |
North Tees  | Redcar and Cleveland  | Navigator Terminals  | Storage, 36 tanks, 850,000 m³  | [1] [3] [2]
North Walsham  | Norfolk  | Operated by BPA  | Rail loading condensate by pipeline from Bacton | [8] [17]
Pembroke  | Pembrokeshire  | Valero  | Oil refinery  | [1] [2]
Peterhead  | Aberdeenshire  | Asco Oils  | Storage, 17 tanks, 35,139 m³  | [3][2]
Plymouth  | Devon  | Valero  | Storage, 10 tanks  | [1] [2]
Plymouth  | Devon  | Greenergy  | Storage, 40 million litres  | [1] [14] [2]
Purfleet  | Thurrock  | ExxonMobil, Esso  | Ship offloading storage and road tanker loading  | [1] [13] [2]
Riverside  | Stockton on Tees  | Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)  | Storage, 22 tanks, 65,150 m³  | [1] [3] [9] [2]
Runcorn  | Cheshire  | Inter Terminals  | Storage, 4 tanks, 23,804 m³  | [3]
Saffron Walden  | Essex  | CLH Pipeline System  | Party buried tanks  | [5]
Sandy  | Bedfordshire  | GPSS  | Decommissioned  | [5]
Seal Sands  | Stockton on Tees  | Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)  | Storage, 116 tanks, 246,604m3  | [1] [3] [9] [2]
Seal Sands  | Stockton on Tees  | Navigator Terminals  | Storage, 168 tanks, 287,000 m³  | [1] [3] [2]
Seal Sands  | Stockton on Tees  | ConocoPhillips  | Fed from Norpipe, capacity 1,000,000 barrels per day, fractionation, produces stabilised crude, ethane, propane, butane and isobutane, commissioned Autumn 1975  | [21]
Shell Haven  | Thurrock  | Shell UK oil products Ltd  | Aviation fuel, ship offloading, storage, road tanker loading, export via 2 pipelines. 16 tanks at Haven North total 10,700 m3, 4 tanks total 27,000 m3 at Haven South  | [13]
Shoreham  | Sussex  | Local Fuel  |  | [9] [2]
Staines  | London Borough of Hounslow  | ExxonMobil, Esso  | Also called Esso West London oil terminal.

Storage, 25 tanks, aviation fuel supply from Fawley, supply to Heathrow

| [1] [9] [2]
Stanlow refinery  | Cheshire West & Chester  | Essar Oil UK  | Oil refinery  | [1] [15] [2]
Stansted airport  | Essex  |  | Storage and distribution, 3 × 6300 m3 tanks and 2 × 150 m3 tanks, supply from Saffron Walden  | [3]
Sullom Voe | Shetland  | Enquest  | Oil by pipeline from offshore, export by ship, original capacity 3,000,000 barrels per day, commissioned Spring 1978. Products: stabilised crude, propane and butane  | [31] [21]
Teesside oil terminal | Middlesbrough  | ConocoPhillips  | Fed from Norpipe, capacity 1,000,000 barrels per day, fractionation, produces stabilised crude, ethane, propane, butane and isobutane, commissioned Autumn 1975  | [21]
Tetney marine terminal  | Lincolnshire  | Phillips 66  | Supply from monobuoy, 10 large storage tanks, discharge to Humber refinery. Located 53°30’00”N 0°00’03”E  | [32]
Thames  | Thurrock  | Navigator Terminals  | Ship offloading, 86 tanks, total 378,000 m3, road tanker loading  | [1] [3] [2]
Thames Oilport | Essex  | Greenergy / Shell  | Ship offloading, storage, tanker loading  | [1] [14]
Thanckes  | Devon  | Operated by OPA  | Supports Devonport Naval Base  | [3]
Theale  | West Berkshire  | Puma Energy  | Storage, 9 tanks, 9,288 m³  | [1] [3] [2]
Thetford  | Norfolk  | Oil NG  | Supplies RAF and USAF airbases in Suffolk and Norfolk  | [33]
Torksey  | Lincolnshire  | Shell (UK) Ltd  | Railway siding off Gainsborough line, east of Cottam operational 1988, demolished by 1998  | [34]
Tranmere | Merseyside  | Stanlow Terminals (formerly Essar Oil UK)  | Ship offloading, crude oil  | [15] [9] [2]
Tyne  | Tyne and Wear  | Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)  | Storage, 62 tanks, 57,014 m³  | [1] [3] [9] [2]
Walton on Thames  | Surrey  | GPSS  | Tanks decommissioned, Pump station extant  | [5]
Welton  | Lincolnshire  | International Petroleum / Igas Energy (formerly BP Developments 1986)  | Gathering station for local oil fields (Welton, Scampton North, etc.) loading facilities for rail export  | [35] [36] [37]
Westerleigh  | South Gloucestershire  | Puma Energy  | Storage, 14 tanks, 15,237 m³  | [1] [3] [2]
West Thurrock  | Thurrock  | Navigator Terminals  | Ship offloading, storage,  86 tanks, 378,000 m3, road tanker loading  | [13]

## See also

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* Oil Terminal
* 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.

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