Coryton Refinery
The Coryton refinery (engl. Coryton Refinery ) was on the north bank of the Thames estuary lying oil refinery in Essex , England , about 45 kilometers from the city of London away. The site of the former refinery was located between the waters of Shell Haven Creek and Hole Haven Creek the Canvey Iceland separated from the mainland. The last refinery belonging to Petroplus processed 10 million tons of crude oil per year and belonged to the port of London . After the dismantling of the formerly neighboring Shell Haven refinery , Coryton was the last of three large refineries on the Thames estuary.
After Petroplus went bankrupt, the refinery was sold to a joint venture of Shell UK Ltd, Vopak and Greenergy, who intend to operate Coryton as a terminal in the future.
Located on the site since 2002, a gas turbine power plant with 753 megawatts of power from the intergenic daughter Coryton Energy Co Ltd is operated.
history
Kynoch
In 1895, the Kynoch ammunition factory built a factory to manufacture explosives. When production began in 1897, a settlement called Kynochtown was also opened for the company's employees. Products made here included cordite , gun cotton , black powder, and cartridges . Kynoch also founded the Corringham Light Railway (CLR) and built a passenger train route from the factory to Corringham, Essex and a freight train route to the LT&SR in Thames Haven. The ammunition factory was closed in 1919.
Cory Brothers
The site and the railroad operations were taken over by the coal traders Cory Brothers Ltd from Cardiff, who built a mineral oil depot here and renamed Kynochtown Coryton. The historical sources do not agree, however, whether the company Corys, which sold a well-known brand of gasoline called Corys' Motor Spirit , initiated the construction of a refinery.
Vacuum Oil Company / Mobil
1950 Coryton was sold together with the railway company CLR to the American Vacuum Oil Company , later called Mobil . The section of the railway line to Corringham was closed, but the connection to the former LT&SR in Thames Haven was expanded to a main line. In 1953 a new refinery started operations. In this context, the settlement of Coryton was demolished. The site was built over in the 1970s by extensions to the refinery.
BP
Coryton was operated by BP from 1996 after Mobil's fuel businesses in Europe became part of a joint venture between the two companies. 1999 Mobil was merged with Exxon ; the remaining shares in the Coryton refinery were sold to BP in 2000.
Petroplus
As of 2007, Petroplus, who acquired the facilities for £ 714 million from BP, was the new owner. On January 24, 2012, it was announced that Petroplus had filed for bankruptcy and the future of the refinery was therefore in the dark.
Shell UK Ltd, Vopak and Greenergy
After Petroplus went bankrupt, the refinery was sold to a joint venture of Shell UK Ltd, Vopak and Greenergy, who intend to operate Coryton as a terminal in the future.
Production facilities
The main facilities of the Coryton Refinery included:
- distillation
- Vacuum distillation
- Fluid catalytic cracker
- Catalytic reformer
- Hydrogen desulfurization
- Gas recovery
- Isomerization
- Alkylation
The refinery produced per year
- Petrol : 3.6 million tons
- Diesel fuel : 2.7 million tons
- Aviation fuel : 1.1 million tons
- Liquid gas : 0.2 million tons
- Heating oil : 1.7 million tons
- Bitumen : 0.3 million tons
Port facilities
The crude oil was delivered via one of the five jetties on the refinery site. Crude oil tankers up to a load capacity of 250,000 DWT (dead weight tonnage) could be unloaded at the Coryton loading facilities . In 2005 BP acquired a fleet of three new tugs for towing and mooring the tankers, fire fighting and environmental monitoring. They were named after places in the vicinity 'Corringham', 'Stanford' and 'Castle Point'.
Infrastructural connection
The products were mainly distributed in the south of Great Britain. They were brought to consumers - mainly oil companies, resellers, industry and gas stations - by road, rail and sea. Coryton is also connected to the Stanlow Refinery at Ellesmere Port in North West England via the UK product pipeline network - the United Kingdom Oil Pipeline (UKOP) , which may have been an important consideration for future use as a terminal.
Claims
On October 31, 2007, there was an explosion with a subsequent major fire in the facility. Although the force of the explosion still shook buildings at a distance of 22 kilometers, there were no injuries or extensive damage to the refinery.
Individual evidence
- ^ Shell and partners to turn Coryton into terminal , June 26, 2012; Accessed October 4, 2012
- ^ Henry W. Macrosty: The Trust Movement In British Industry ( Memento of the original dated August 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Chemical Industries, p. 166, Batoche Books, 1907
- ↑ BBC: Coryton refinery job fears after Petroplus go bankrupt
- ^ The Coryton Refinery , accessed February 2, 2012
- ↑ Aislinn Simpson: Fire crews control oil refinery blaze , The Daily Telegraph , November 1st 2007, accessed 2 February 2012
- ↑ Inquiry into refinery fire begins , BBC News, November 1, 2007, accessed February 2, 2012
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '43.9 " N , 0 ° 30' 40.7" E