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

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 [1]
Aberdeen Aberdeen City Asco Oils Storage, 31 tanks, total 26,880 m³ [1] [2]
Aldermaston West Berkshire GPSS Decommissioned [3] [4]
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 [5]
Avonmouth Bristol Valero Storage, 8 tanks, Gasoline, diesel, kerosene and gas oil [1] [6]
Avonmouth Bristol ExxonMobil Storage 190 tanks [1]
Bacton Norfolk Operated by BPA Gas terminal, condensate separation, storage and export by pipeline to North Walsham [7]
Belfast Belfast Valero Storage, 26 tanks [1]
Belfast Belfast Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals) Storage, 50 tanks, 65,216 m³ [1] [2] [8]
Belfast Belfast Puma Energy Storage, 20 tanks, 155,000 m³ [1] [2]
Berwick Wood South Gloucestershire CLH Pipeline System Storage and pumping [1]
Birmingham Birmingham ExxonMobil, Esso Storage, 17 tanks, 50,00 m3 [1] [8]
Blyth Northumberland Geos Group Storage, 15 million litre capacity [1] [9]
Bramhall Greater Manchester CLH Pipeline System, Exolum Storage and pipeline transfer, 7 partly buried tanks [1] [10] [8]
Brighton (Shoreham) Brighton & Hove Local Fuel Storage and road tanker loading [1] [2] [11]
Buncefield Hertfordshire BP Storage [1]
Campbeltown Argyll and Bute Operated by OPA Supports Royal Navy [2]
Canvey Island Essex Oikos Storage Ship loading, offloading, storage [1] [12]
Cardiff Cardiff Greenergy Rail fed [1] [13]
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 [14]
Cloghan Point Antrim LCC Group Storage, 4 tanks, fuel oil for Ballylumford and Kilroot power stations. [1] [15]
Clydebank West Dunbartonshire Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals) Storage, 25 tanks, 56,257 m³ [1] [2] [8]
Colnbrook London Borough of Hillingdon BP, operated by BPA Rail offloading [16]
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 [17]
Dalston Cumbria Petroineos Fuels Rail offloading from Grangemouth [1]
Dagenham Greater London Stolthaven Terminals Ship offloading, storage 60 to 11,000 m3, tanker loading [1] [2]
Dalmeny Edinburgh Ineos Crude storage and ship loading [18]
Eastham Cheshire West & Chester Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals) Storage, 157 tanks, 325,198 m³ [1] [2] [8]
Ellesmere Port Cheshire West & Chester Essar Oil UK Stanlow Oil refinery storage [1]
Falmouth Cornwall World Fuel Services Storage, 27 tanks, 70,000 m³ [1] [2]
Fawley Hampshire ExxonMobil, Esso Oil refinery storage [1] [8]
Finnart Ocean Argyll and Bute Petroineos Fuels Storage and pipeline transfer to Grangemouth [1]
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 [19] [20]
Furzebrook Dorset BP Rail loading from Wytch Farm (facility decommissioned) [21]
Garelochhead Argyll and Bute Operated by OPA Supports adjacent Naval Base [2]
Gatwick Airport West Sussex Operated by BPA Distribution [16]
Goostrey Cheshire East Shell Built in 1955 by Shell connected to GPSS, decommissioned [22]
Gosport Hampshire Operated by OPA Supports Gosport Naval Base [2]
Grain Kent BP Ship offloading, rail loading [23]
Grangemouth Falkirk Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals) Storage, 46 tanks, 112,892 m³ [1] [2] [8]
Grangemouth Falkirk Petroineos Oil refinery [1]
Grangemouth Falkirk E. D. & F Man Terminal UK Storage, 23 tanks, 15,900 m³ [2]
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] [12] [2] [8]
Great Yarmouth Norfolk Asco Oils Storage, 35 tanks 11,034 m³ [1]
Hallen South Gloucestershire CLH Pipeline System, Exolum Storage and pumping [24] [8]
Hamble Hampshire BP Supply by pipeline from Fawley refinery, and 16-inch pipeline from Wytch Farm, export by pipeline and tanker filling [1]
Harwich Essex Haltermann Carless Oil refinery, condensate trains from North Walsham [1]
Haydock Lancashire Shell-Mex and BP Storage and distribution, opened 1969 closed c.1980 [25]
Heathrow airport London Borough of Hillingdon Storage and distribution [16]
Holybourne Hampshire Star energy Rail loading (not regularly used) [21]
Holyhead Anglesey World Fuel Services Storage and tank loading [1]
Humber North Lincolnshire Phillips 66 Refinery [1]
Hythe Hampshire Esso [8]
Immingham North Lincolnshire Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals) Storage, 240 tanks, 628,354 m³ [1] [2] [8]
Immingham North Lincolnshire Phillips 66 Storage, tanker loading, rail tanker loading [1] [26]
Inverness Highland Certas Energy Storage, 20 tanks [1]
Jarrow Tyne and Wear Prax Petroleum Storage, 17 tanks, 45,000 m³ [1]
Kingsbury Warwickshire Essar Oil UK / Shell

Valero

Phillips 66 / Total

 14 tanks, 100 million litres, co-mingled product, eight vehicle loading gantries [1]
Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Hull IBL Bulk liquids Storage, 120 tanks, 34,500m3 [2]
Kinneil Falkirk Ineos Crude Oil processing, original capacity 500,000 barrels per day. Products: stabilised crude, propane and butane. Commissioned Autumn 1975 [18] [20]
Lindsey North Lincolnshire Total Lindsey Oil Refinery Oil refinery [1]
Lindsey North Lincolnshire Prax [8]
Liverpool Merseyside World Fuel Services Storage, 29 tanks, 50,527 m³ [1] [2]
Loch Ewe Highland Operated by OPA Supports Royal Navy [2]
Loch Striven Argyll and Bute Operated by OPA Supports Royal Navy [2]
Londonderry County Londonderry LCC Group Storage, 11 tanks, capacity of 86,000 tonnes [1] [27] [8]
Manchester Greater Manchester Valero Trafford Wharf on Manchester Ship Canal, storage [1]
Milford Haven Pembrokeshire Puma Energy Storage, 55 tanks, 1,500,000 m³ [1] [2]
Milford Haven Pembrokeshire Valero Distribution terminal associated with oil refinery [1]
Mossmorran Fife ExxonMobil Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) condensate processing [28]
Nigg Highland Repsol Sinopec Built in 1979 to accept Beatrice crude via pipeline [29]
Northampton Northamptonshire Essar Oil UK 8 storage tanks, 4 ethanol tanks, total storage 28.6 million litres, 5 loading bays [1] [14]
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] [2]
North Walsham Norfolk Operated by BPA Rail loading condensate by pipeline from Bacton [7] [16]
Pembroke Pembrokeshire Valero Oil refinery [1]
Peterhead Aberdeenshire Asco Oils Storage, 17 tanks, 35,139 m³ [2]
Plymouth Devon Valero Storage, 10 tanks [1]
Plymouth Devon Greenergy Storage, 40 million litres [1] [13]
Purfleet Thurrock ExxonMobil, Esso Ship offloading storage and road tanker loading [1] [12]
Riverside Stockton on Tees Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals) Storage, 22 tanks, 65,150 m³ [1] [2] [8]
Runcorn Cheshire Inter Terminals Storage, 4 tanks, 23,804 m³ [2]
Saffron Walden Essex CLH Pipeline System Party buried tanks [4]
Sandy Bedfordshire GPSS Decommissioned [4]
Seal Sands Stockton on Tees Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals) Storage, 116 tanks, 246,604m3 [1] [2] [8]
Seal Sands Stockton on Tees Navigator Terminals Storage, 168 tanks, 287,000 m³ [1] [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 [20]
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 [12]
Shoreham Sussex Local Fuel [8]
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

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Stanlow refinery Cheshire West & Chester Essar Oil UK Oil refinery [1] [14]
Stansted airport Essex Storage and distribution, 3 × 6300 m3 tanks and 2 × 150 m3 tanks, supply from Saffron Walden [2]
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 [30] [20]
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 [20]
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 [31]
Thames Thurrock Navigator Terminals Ship offloading, 86 tanks, total 378,000 m3, road tanker loading [1] [2]
Thames Oilport Essex Greenergy / Shell Ship offloading, storage, tanker loading [1] [13]
Thanckes Devon Operated by OPA Supports Devonport Naval Base [2]
Theale West Berkshire Puma Energy Storage, 9 tanks, 9,288 m³ [1] [2]
Thetford Norfolk Oil NG Supplies RAF and USAF airbases in Suffolk and Norfolk [32]
Torksey Lincolnshire Shell (UK) Ltd Railway siding off Gainsborough line, east of Cottam operational 1988, demolished by 1998 [33]
Tranmere Merseyside Stanlow Terminals (formerly Essar Oil UK) Ship offloading, crude oil [14] [8]
Tyne Tyne and Wear Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals) Storage, 62 tanks, 57,014 m³ [1] [2] [8]
Walton on Thames Surrey GPSS Tanks decommissioned, Pump station extant [4]
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 [34] [35] [36]
Westerleigh South Gloucestershire Puma Energy Storage, 14 tanks, 15,237 m³ [1] [2]
West Thurrock Thurrock Navigator Terminals Ship offloading, storage,  86 tanks, 378,000 m3, road tanker loading [12]

See also

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