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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

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

Acronyms used in the list include:

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

Valero

Phillips 66 / Total

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

Stanlow refinery Cheshire West & Chester Essar Oil UK Oil refinery  
Stansted airport Essex Storage and distribution, 3 × 6300 m tanks and 2 × 150 m tanks, supply from Saffron Walden
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
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
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
Thames Thurrock Navigator Terminals Ship offloading, 86 tanks, total 378,000 m, road tanker loading  
Thames Oilport Essex Greenergy / Shell Ship offloading, storage, tanker loading  
Thanckes Devon Operated by OPA Supports Devonport Naval Base
Theale West Berkshire Puma Energy Storage, 9 tanks, 9,288 m³  
Thetford Norfolk Oil NG Supplies RAF and USAF airbases in Suffolk and Norfolk
Torksey Lincolnshire Shell (UK) Ltd Railway siding off Gainsborough line, east of Cottam operational 1988, demolished by 1998
Tranmere Merseyside Stanlow Terminals (formerly Essar Oil UK) Ship offloading, crude oil
Tyne Tyne and Wear Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals) Storage, 62 tanks, 57,014 m³  
Walton on Thames Surrey GPSS Tanks decommissioned, Pump station extant
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
Westerleigh South Gloucestershire Puma Energy Storage, 14 tanks, 15,237 m³  
West Thurrock Thurrock Navigator Terminals Ship offloading, storage,  86 tanks, 378,000 m, road tanker loading

See also

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