Teesside Refinery
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The Conocophillips oil and gas Refinery, sometimes referred to as Teesside Refinery, is situated just south of Seaton Carew
on the River Tees
in north east England
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The refinery is connected to the crude oil pipeline from the Ekofisk field
The Teesside Facility is a crude oil reception, storage and trans-shipment installation. Operations comprise of both processing and tanker loading facilities and cover a 307-acre site at Seal Sands near Middlesbrough. Stabilised oil is stored in a 375-acre tank farm at Greatham. A two-mile corridor containing pipelines, communications and utility services links the two sites.
The site with around 270 employees and has been operational for 30 years. In this time the terminal has processed over five billion barrels of oil, seen 15,000 ships visit their jetties and had a first-class safety record. The plant has also been run with a downtime of less than 24 hours in 30 years.
On site there is a canteen, an active sports and social club and People SPIRIT team who organise a variety of activities including a family fun day and annual dinner dance. ConocoPhillips continually funds technical apprenticeship schemes in the area and is directly involved in local primary and secondary school education. Initiatives range from donating computers and funding school exchange programmes, to providing engineers for maths and science days.
The terminal has received numerous Gold Medals and President’s awards from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) over the years. These awards are in recognition of the site’s occupational safety achievements acknowledging successful management of occupational health and accident prevention.
The Teesside terminal is accredited to ISO 14001, the international environmental management system standard, which it has held continuously since October 1998. The site is on the fringe of the estuary mudflats of Seal Sands, an area of considerable conservation interest and home to wildfowl and seal colonies.
Seaton Carew
Seaton Carew is a small seaside resort within the Borough of Hartlepool, in North East England with a population of 6,018 . It is situated on the North Sea coast between the town of Hartlepool and the mouth of the River Tees...
on the River Tees
River Tees
The River Tees is in Northern England. It rises on the eastern slope of Cross Fell in the North Pennines, and flows eastwards for 85 miles to reach the North Sea between Hartlepool and Redcar.-Geography:...
in north east England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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The refinery is connected to the crude oil pipeline from the Ekofisk field
Ekofisk oil field
Ekofisk is an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea about southwest of Stavanger. Discovered in 1969, it remains one of the most important oil fields in the North Sea. Production began in 1971 after the construction of a series of off-shore platforms by Phillips Petroleum Company...
The Teesside Facility is a crude oil reception, storage and trans-shipment installation. Operations comprise of both processing and tanker loading facilities and cover a 307-acre site at Seal Sands near Middlesbrough. Stabilised oil is stored in a 375-acre tank farm at Greatham. A two-mile corridor containing pipelines, communications and utility services links the two sites.
The site with around 270 employees and has been operational for 30 years. In this time the terminal has processed over five billion barrels of oil, seen 15,000 ships visit their jetties and had a first-class safety record. The plant has also been run with a downtime of less than 24 hours in 30 years.
On site there is a canteen, an active sports and social club and People SPIRIT team who organise a variety of activities including a family fun day and annual dinner dance. ConocoPhillips continually funds technical apprenticeship schemes in the area and is directly involved in local primary and secondary school education. Initiatives range from donating computers and funding school exchange programmes, to providing engineers for maths and science days.
The terminal has received numerous Gold Medals and President’s awards from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) over the years. These awards are in recognition of the site’s occupational safety achievements acknowledging successful management of occupational health and accident prevention.
The Teesside terminal is accredited to ISO 14001, the international environmental management system standard, which it has held continuously since October 1998. The site is on the fringe of the estuary mudflats of Seal Sands, an area of considerable conservation interest and home to wildfowl and seal colonies.