Transport in Shetland - Sullom Voe Terminal, Sumburgh Airport, Sixareen, Good Shepherd IV, Scatsta Airport, Tingwall Airport, Fair Isle Airport (Paperback)

Chapters: Sullom Voe Terminal, Sumburgh Airport, Sixareen, Good Shepherd Iv, Scatsta Airport, Tingwall Airport, Fair Isle Airport. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Sullom Voe Terminal is an oil and liquefied gas terminal at Sullom Voe in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. It handles production from oilfields in the North Sea and East Shetland Basin. It is not a refinery and stores oil before it is transported by tanker. When Shetland was identified as a location to provide pipeline terminal and support facilities for offshore oil installations in the northern North Sea, corporations involved had expected to each build their own terminal facilities. However, wishing to minimize the negative impacts of the industry, the Shetland Islands Council, with power granted to it by the UK Parliament in the 1974 Zetland County Council Act, was able to contain all pipeline terminal facilities at the Sullom Voe site. Sullom Voe Terminal was built between 1975 and 1981. 6,000 people were employed during construction. First oil was received at 18:40 on 25 November 1978 via the Brent pipeline. At 12:30 on 3 December 1978, the first oil from the Ninian pipeline was received. The Scatsta Airport to the south re-opened in 1978 to support the building of the terminal. The terminal was officially opened on Saturday 9 May 1981 by Queen Elizabeth II. A bomb blast at the power station on the terminal took place at 12.05pm on the day of the ceremony which was accredited to the IRA. No-one was injured and a boiler was damaged. Sullom Voe oil terminal at duskSullom Voe Terminal has been owned since its construction by Shell UK and Esso Exploration and Production (UK). The plant is operated by BP. In December 2008, 24% of the ownership of the plant was sold to Taqa Bra...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1486387