A photographic print of Industry, Fuel & Power, Oil - Refineries - Grangemouth, Scotland

FIRST OIL DISCHARGED AT NEW JETTY BP 18.11.1958. BRITISH PETROLEUM TANKER COMPANY'S 32-000 TON OIL TANKER DISCHARGING CRUDE OIL AT THE NEW DEEP-WATER OIL JETTY AT BP'S FINNART OCEAN TERMINAL, LONG LOCH, SCOTLAND, RECENTLY. FROM FINNART THE OIL IS PUMPED ALONG 57 MILE PIPELINE TO BP's GRANGEMOUTH OIL REFINERY NEAR EDINBURGH, ON THE FIRTH OF FORTH. THE TANKER ALONG WITH ANOTHER CHARTERED VESSEL, DISCHARGED BETWEEN THEM SOME 47,000 TONS OF CRUDE OIL. THE EVENT MARKED THE COMING INTO OPERATION OF BP's £2MILLLION PROJECT STARTED IN MAY, 1957, WHICH PROVIDES DISCHARGING FACILITIES AT FINNART FOR THE LARGEST TANKERS FORSEEABLE. BP's ORIGINAL FINNART JETTY, COMPLETED IN 1951 AND SITUATED HALF A MILE TO THE NORTH. THE NEW ONE, CANNOT ACCOMMODATE TANKERS EXCEEDING 32,000. D.W. TON INDUSTRY - OIL REFINERIES - BRITISH - GRANGEMOUTH