Project Profile
Location: Seal Sands, Middlesbrough, northeast England
Area: 307 acres (1.23 sq km)
Capacity: 1 million bpd
Storage capacity: 10 tanks x 750,000 barrels each
Start-up Year: 1975
The terminal receives, processes, stores and trans-ships crude oil and NGLs from the Greater Ekofisk and Valhall field clusters in Norway as well as the Judy Platform. A 354-km oil pipeline transports the hydrocarbons to Teesside on the UK East coast.
First oil was received in 1975 followed by the completion of the main processing plant in 1979. The facility includes a stabilization section, an NGL section, utilities section, crude oil and NGL storage tanks and a port of shipment. The facility fractionates NGLs into ethane, propane and butane. The plant is fuelled by methane while the rest of the products are cooled to liquid state, refrigerated and stored in insulated tanks prior to shipment.
The terminal has four quays for crude oil, one of which can also load NGL products, and three dedicated quays for NGL products. The crude oil quays are capable of receiving tankers of up to 150,000 tonnes while the NGL quays can receive vessels with a capacity of up to 60,000 cubic metres.
Operators:
ConocoPhillips: Operator with 29.3% interest
Total: 32.9% interest
Statoil: 27.3% interest
Eni: 10.3% interest
Rothschild & Co (formerly Paris Orléans): 0.2% interest
Contractors:
Charter Tech: Contract to provide Burner Management System (BMS) (March, 2003)
Hertel UK: Provides maintenance and repair services