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:

• BPA  British Pipelines Agency
• CLH  Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos
• GPSS  Government Pipelines and Storage System
• LCC  Lissan Coal Company
• OPA  Oil and Pipelines Agency
• PSD  Petroleum Storage Depot

Oil terminals in the United Kingdom

Terminal	Location (County or Unitary Authority)	Operator	Facilities and operations	References
Aberdeen	Aberdeen City	Certas Energy	Storage	[1][2]
Aberdeen	Aberdeen City	Asco Oils	Storage, 31 tanks, total 26,880 m³	[1][3][2]
Aldermaston	West Berkshire	GPSS	Decommissioned	[4][5]
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	[6]
Avonmouth	Bristol	Valero	Storage, 8 tanks, Gasoline, diesel, kerosene and gas oil	[1][7][2]
Avonmouth	Bristol	Esso	Storage 190 tanks	[1][2]
Bacton	Norfolk	Operated by BPA	Gas terminal, condensate separation, storage and export by pipeline to North Walsham	[8]
Belfast	Belfast	Valero	Storage, 26 tanks	[1][2]
Belfast	Belfast	Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)	Storage, 50 tanks, 65,216 m³	[1][3][9][2]
Belfast	Belfast	Puma Energy	Storage, 20 tanks, 155,000 m³	[1][3][2]
Berwick Wood	South Gloucestershire	CLH Pipeline System	Storage and pumping	[1]
Birmingham	Birmingham	ExxonMobil, Esso	Storage, 17 tanks, 50,00 m3	[1][9][2]
Blyth	Northumberland	Geos Group	Storage, 15 million litre capacity	[1][10][2]
Bramhall	Greater Manchester	CLH Pipeline System, Exolum	Storage and pipeline transfer, 7 partly buried tanks	[1][11][9]
Brighton (Shoreham)	Brighton & Hove	Local Fuel	Storage and road tanker loading	[1][3][12]
Buncefield	Hertfordshire	BP	Storage	[1][2]
Campbeltown	Argyll and Bute	Operated by OPA	Supports Royal Navy	[3]
Canvey Island	Essex	Oikos Storage	Ship loading, offloading, storage	[1][13][2]
Cardiff	Cardiff	Greenergy	Rail fed	[1][14]
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	[15]
Cloghan Point	Antrim	LCC Group	Storage, 4 tanks, fuel oil for Ballylumford and Kilroot power stations.	[1][16]
Clydebank	West Dunbartonshire	Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)	Storage, 25 tanks, 56,257 m³	[1][3][9][2]
Colnbrook	London Borough of Hillingdon	BP, operated by BPA	Rail offloading	[17]
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	[18]
Dalston	Cumbria	Petroineos Fuels	Rail offloading from Grangemouth	[1][2]
Dagenham	Greater London	Stolthaven Terminals	Ship offloading, storage 60 to 11,000 m3, tanker loading	[1][3][2]
Dalmeny	Edinburgh	Ineos	Crude storage and ship loading	[19]
Eastham	Cheshire West & Chester	Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)	Storage, 157 tanks, 325,198 m³	[1][3][9][2]
Ellesmere Port	Cheshire West & Chester	Stanlow Terminals (was Essar Oil UK)	Stanlow Oil refinery storage	[1][2]
Falmouth	Cornwall	World Fuel Services	Storage, 27 tanks, 70,000 m³	[1][3][2]
Fawley	Hampshire	ExxonMobil, Esso	Oil refinery storage	[1][9][2]
Finnart Ocean	Argyll and Bute	Petroineos Fuels	Storage and pipeline transfer to Grangemouth	[1][2]
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	[20][21]
Furzebrook	Dorset	BP	Rail loading from Wytch Farm (facility decommissioned)	[22]
Garelochhead	Argyll and Bute	Operated by OPA	Supports adjacent Naval Base	[3]
Gatwick Airport	West Sussex	Operated by BPA	Distribution	[17]
Goostrey	Cheshire East	Shell	Built in 1955 by Shell connected to GPSS, decommissioned	[23]
Gosport	Hampshire	Operated by OPA	Supports Gosport Naval Base	[3]
Grain	Kent	BP	Ship offloading, rail loading	[24]
Grangemouth	Falkirk	Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)	Storage, 46 tanks, 112,892 m³	[1][3][9][2]
Grangemouth	Falkirk	Petroineos	Oil refinery	[1][2]
Grangemouth	Falkirk	E. D. & F Man Terminal UK	Storage, 23 tanks, 15,900 m³ decommissioned?	[3]
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][13][3][9][2]
Great Yarmouth	Norfolk	Asco Oils	Storage, 35 tanks 11,034 m³	[1]
Hallen	South Gloucestershire	CLH Pipeline System, Exolum	Storage and pumping	[25][9][2]
Hamble	Hampshire	BP	Supply by pipeline from Fawley refinery, and 16-inch pipeline from Wytch Farm, export by pipeline and tanker filling	[1][2]
Harwich	Essex	Haltermann Carless	Oil refinery, condensate trains from North Walsham	[1][2]
Haydock	Lancashire	Shell-Mex and BP	Storage and distribution, opened 1969 closed c.1980	[26]
Heathrow airport	London Borough of Hillingdon		Storage and distribution	[17]
Holybourne	Hampshire	Star energy	Rail loading (not regularly used)	[22]
Holyhead	Anglesey	World Fuel Services	Storage and tank loading	[1]
Humber	North Lincolnshire	Phillips 66	Refinery	[1]
Hythe	Hampshire	Esso		[9][2]
Immingham	North Lincolnshire	Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)	Storage, 240 tanks, 628,354 m³	[1][3][9]
Immingham	North Lincolnshire	Phillips 66	Storage, tanker loading, rail tanker loading	[1][27][2]
Inverness	Highland	Certas Energy	Storage, 20 tanks	[1][2]
Jarrow	Tyne and Wear	Prax Petroleum	Storage, 17 tanks, 45,000 m³	[1][2]
Kingsbury	Warwickshire	Essar Oil UK / Shell Valero Phillips 66 / Total	14 tanks, 100 million litres, co-mingled product, eight vehicle loading gantries	[1][2]
Kingston upon Hull	Kingston upon Hull	IBL Bulk liquids	Storage, 120 tanks, 34,500m3	[3]
Kinneil	Falkirk	Ineos	Crude Oil processing, original capacity 500,000 barrels per day. Products: stabilised crude, propane and butane. Commissioned Autumn 1975	[19][21]
Lerwick	Shetland	Certas Energy		[2]
Lerwick	Shetland	Petersons		[2]
Lindsey	North Lincolnshire	Total Lindsey Oil Refinery	Oil refinery	[1]
Lindsey	North Lincolnshire	Prax		[9][2]
Liverpool	Merseyside	World Fuel Services	Storage, 29 tanks, 50,527 m³	[1][3][2]
Loch Ewe	Highland	Operated by OPA	Supports Royal Navy	[3]
Loch Striven	Argyll and Bute	Operated by OPA	Supports Royal Navy	[3]
Londonderry	County Londonderry	LCC Group	Storage, 11 tanks, capacity of 86,000 tonnes	[1][28][9][2]
Manchester	Greater Manchester	Valero	Trafford Wharf on Manchester Ship Canal, storage	[1][2]
Milford Haven	Pembrokeshire	Puma Energy	Storage, 55 tanks, 1,500,000 m³	[1][3][2]
Milford Haven	Pembrokeshire	Valero	Distribution terminal associated with oil refinery	[1][2]
Mossmorran	Fife	ExxonMobil	Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) condensate processing	[29]
Nigg	Highland	Repsol Sinopec	Built in 1979 to accept Beatrice crude via pipeline	[30]
Northampton	Northamptonshire	Essar Oil UK	8 storage tanks, 4 ethanol tanks, total storage 28.6 million litres, 5 loading bays	[1][15][2]
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][3][2]
North Walsham	Norfolk	Operated by BPA	Rail loading condensate by pipeline from Bacton	[8][17]
Pembroke	Pembrokeshire	Valero	Oil refinery	[1][2]
Peterhead	Aberdeenshire	Asco Oils	Storage, 17 tanks, 35,139 m³	[3][2]
Plymouth	Devon	Valero	Storage, 10 tanks	[1][2]
Plymouth	Devon	Greenergy	Storage, 40 million litres	[1][14][2]
Purfleet	Thurrock	ExxonMobil, Esso	Ship offloading storage and road tanker loading	[1][13][2]
Riverside	Stockton on Tees	Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)	Storage, 22 tanks, 65,150 m³	[1][3][9][2]
Runcorn	Cheshire	Inter Terminals	Storage, 4 tanks, 23,804 m³	[3]
Saffron Walden	Essex	CLH Pipeline System	Party buried tanks	[5]
Sandy	Bedfordshire	GPSS	Decommissioned	[5]
Seal Sands	Stockton on Tees	Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)	Storage, 116 tanks, 246,604m3	[1][3][9][2]
Seal Sands	Stockton on Tees	Navigator Terminals	Storage, 168 tanks, 287,000 m³	[1][3][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	[21]
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	[13]
Shoreham	Sussex	Local Fuel		[9][2]
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	[1][9][2]
Stanlow refinery	Cheshire West & Chester	Essar Oil UK	Oil refinery	[1][15][2]
Stansted airport	Essex		Storage and distribution, 3 × 6300 m3 tanks and 2 × 150 m3 tanks, supply from Saffron Walden	[3]
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	[31][21]
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	[21]
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	[32]
Thames	Thurrock	Navigator Terminals	Ship offloading, 86 tanks, total 378,000 m3, road tanker loading	[1][3][2]
Thames Oilport	Essex	Greenergy / Shell	Ship offloading, storage, tanker loading	[1][14]
Thanckes	Devon	Operated by OPA	Supports Devonport Naval Base	[3]
Theale	West Berkshire	Puma Energy	Storage, 9 tanks, 9,288 m³	[1][3][2]
Thetford	Norfolk	Oil NG	Supplies RAF and USAF airbases in Suffolk and Norfolk	[33]
Torksey	Lincolnshire	Shell (UK) Ltd	Railway siding off Gainsborough line, east of Cottam operational 1988, demolished by 1998	[34]
Tranmere	Merseyside	Stanlow Terminals (formerly Essar Oil UK)	Ship offloading, crude oil	[15][9][2]
Tyne	Tyne and Wear	Exolum (formerly Inter Terminals)	Storage, 62 tanks, 57,014 m³	[1][3][9][2]
Walton on Thames	Surrey	GPSS	Tanks decommissioned, Pump station extant	[5]
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	[35][36][37]
Westerleigh	South Gloucestershire	Puma Energy	Storage, 14 tanks, 15,237 m³	[1][3][2]
West Thurrock	Thurrock	Navigator Terminals	Ship offloading, storage, 86 tanks, 378,000 m3, road tanker loading	[13]

See also

• Oil Terminal
• UK oil pipeline network
• Oil terminals in Ireland
• CLH Pipeline System
• Oil and Pipelines Agency

• For details of UK gas terminals see individual articles: Bacton, CATS, Easington, Rampside, St Fergus, Theddlethorpe (closed).
• For details of UK Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals see individual articles: Grain LNG, South Hook LNG terminal.