Stanlow Refinery
Stanlow Refinery is part of Shell Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, United
Kingdom. The refinery occupies nearly 1,900 acres and dates back to 1924, when a small bitumen plant was established. [1]
Crude oil is received at the Tranmere Oil
Terminal on the River Mersey and is transferred via a 15 mile pipeline to storage at Stanlow. Output is delivered by pipeline via the UKOP pipeline, road, rail, and the Manchester Ship
Canal.
Statistics
Storage capacity: 2 million tonnes of crude oil and products [1]
Refining capacity: 12 million tonnes per year
- Product output
- petrol 3 million tonnes
- diesel 3.5 million tonnes
- kerosene/jet fuel 2 million tonnes
- LPG & petrochemical feedstocks 1.5 million tonnes
- Fuel oil 1 million tonnes
Trivia
In 1980, the British synth pop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark featured a song about the refinery called Stanlow on their second album, Organisation.
References
- ^ a b Interactive Guide to UK Refineries: Stanlow (Shell). energyinst.org.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2007
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