tarboat's photos with the keyword: refinery

Tanks at the oil refinery operated by Eastham Refinery Limited, a joint operation between Nynas and Shell. The site operates a distillation unit established in 1966 and designed to run on heavy naphthenic crude. In 1989 the unit was expanded to provide a capacity of 1.2m tonnes per year. The main product is bitumen, both penetration and blown grades, and a range of distillates is also produced. These find outlets as gas oil, marine diesel, lubricating base stocks and in a broad spectrum of process industries. A separate blown bitumen unit completed in early 1990 provides additional capacity. It is the largest producer of bitumen in the United Kingdom with a capacity of 800,000 tonnes per year.

The Isis Oil Mill was built in 1912 for historic Hull business Wray, Sanderson and Co. The site become the heart of Hull’s oil seed milling industry. The silo is listed Grade II but much of the surrounding refinery was demolished in 2019.

Stanlow oil refinery seen over the Castner Kellner chemical works at Runcorn. The Mersey estuary intervenes between the two areas of chemical production.

Distant industry beckons on arrival at the Dunkerque ferry terminal. Most obvious is the oil refinery, but the plume of steam indicates the coking plant at the steelworks and the orangey coloured buildings left of centres are the Kerneos aluminium silicates plant.