tarboat's photos with the keyword: pump

Two oil wells not far from the River Trent at Beckingham, opposite Gainsborough. The site is operated by Island Gas Ltd. There continues to be extensive oil pumping across a large area of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

Oil is pumped from wells across a large area of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. These wells are close to the Welton oil gathering centre and are probably now used for water injection. The site is operated by Island Gas Ltd.

Inside the waterwheel at Claverton pumping station which uses the power of the River Avon to raise water 48ft into the Kennet and Avon Canal. It opened in 1813 and is still capable of undertaking the same work today although now operated only on certain days under preservation. Recently the discovery of a crack in one of the arms of the waterwheel has precluded use until repairs can be undertaken.

Valve chest on the Sandfields pumping engine at Lichfield. This Cornish engine has a steam cylinder sixty five inches in diameter, the stroke being nine feet, and worked from the beam was a ram and bucket pump. The bucket was 25.625 inches and the ram 17.175 inches in diameter by 9 foot stroke, and once developed 190 hp at seven strokes a minute, whilst pumping water at the rate of two million gallons per day with a delivery head of 355 feet on the force pump. It was supplied and erected for the South Staffordshire Waterwoks Company by Jonah and George Davies of Tipton and completed in late 1873 after their business had ceased trading. The engine finished working in 1927.

The Southend Waterworks Company began construction of its Langford works in 1924 and by 1927 the works was pumping water from the River Chelmer. The Lilleshall Company Limited supplied three similar steam driven vertical triple expansion rotative pumping engines, each with a maximum pumping capacity of 4.4 million gallons per day. The engines were worked in pairs with a combined maximum pumping rate of 8 million gallons per day. Steam pumping was replaced by electricity in 1963 and two of the engines were scrapped. The third engine has subsequently been restored and forms a centrepiece to the Museum of Power that has been established in the old waterworks buildings.

Chorlton Ees Nature Reserve is situated partly upon the former site of the Withington sewage works, built in the 1880s an finally closed in 1972. This was replaced by this pumping station which raise the sewage so that it can then flow to the works at Stretford. The locals seem to have decided that the building needs a constantly changing set of decorative paintings.

Oil is pumped from wells across a large area of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. This well is close to the River Trent at Beckingham, opposite Gainsborough. It is operated by Island Gas Ltd.

Disused pumping station and reservoir above Penrhyn Quarry.

The pumping engine at Harvey's Shaft of the Kadina copper mine housed a 60 inch diameter Cornish beam engine manufactured by Harvey of Hayle. Electric pumps replaced this engine in 1904 and production ended in 1923 when the Wallaroo Mining Company went into voluntary liquidation. The enginehouse survives with the pump rods still sticking out of the flooded shaft.

Yesterday saw the first public running of the replica Newcomen Engine at the Anson Museum in Poynton. It is very convincing and whilst actually powered by an electric motor the up and down strokes are cleverly arranged to have different speeds. Steam from the top of the cylinder is tapped from the exhaust of the other engines when in use. It does actually raise water from the "pit" too. The museum is well worth a visit and is run by enthusiasts rather than museums types.

BP's Kimmeridge oilwell on the Dorset coastline is the oldest continually producing wellsite in the United Kingdom. It was drilled in 1959 and now produces 80 barrels (12,720) litres of crude oil per day. The oil is stored in the tanks to the left of the image and collected twice a week by road tanker. It is taken to the Gathering Station at Wytch Farm near Corfe Castle and thence by pipeline to the terminal near Southampton. The oilfield here is now operated by the French company Perenco.

BP's Kimmeridge oilwell on the Dorset coastline is the oldest continually producing wellsite in the United Kingdom. It was drilled in 1959 and now produces 80 barrels (12,720) litres of crude oil per day. The oil is stored in the tanks to the left of the image and collected twice a week by road tanker. It is taken to the Gathering Station at Wytch Farm near Corfe Castle and thence by pipeline to the terminal near Southampton. The oilfield here is now operated by the French company Perenco.

When petrol pumps go bad ............... Seen in College Road, Bangor.

The Lincolnshire oilfields are exploited by Island Gas Ltd through a large number of wells. This example is in the parish of Grange de Lings, not far from Scampton.

Bellis & Morcom crude oil engine, one of a pair installed in 1937 at the Hatton pumping station of the Staffordshire Potteries Water Company. The engines drove generators providing power to a number of spindle pumps over the boreholes. The pumping station has been converted to apartments but the remaining equipment is open to view on four days a year.

Pumps on wells at Wytch Farm. This is Europe's largest known onshore oilfield in one of the most environmentally sensitive areas of the UK. Its operations are on the southern shores of Poole Harbour, Furzey Island, Wareham and at Kimmeridge Bay. Perenco UK Limited took over the operation of the oilfield in December 2011. It is currently producing 19,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (crude oil, liquid petroleum gas and gas).

The Southend Waterworks Company began construction of its Langford works in 1924 and by 1927 the works was pumping water from the River Chelmer. The Lilleshall Company Limited supplied three similar steam driven vertical triple expansion rotative pumping engines, each with a maximum pumping capacity of 4.4 million gallons per day. The engines were worked in pairs with a combined maximum pumping rate of 8 million gallons per day. Steam pumping was replaced by electricity in 1963 and subsequently two of the engines were scrapped. The third engine has subsequently been restore and forms a centrepiece to the Museum of Power that has been established in the old waterworks buildings.

Wytch Farm is the location of the largest onshore oil field in Western Europe. The facility was taken over from BP by Perenco in 2011 and pipes oil 91km to Fawley whilst gas is removed by road tanker. In 2002 it was estimated that the field contained reserves of 65.40 million tonnes of oil (479.6 million barrels), 4.73 million tonnes of natural gas liquids and 1.42 billion cubic metres of natural gas that will last until 2020 and 2025 respectively.