Killingholme (Lindsey)
Total UK Limited - Lindsey Oil Refinery
Killingholme
Grimsby
S Humberside DN40 3LW
Tel: 01469 563300
Fax: 01469 563766
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Killingholme (Lindsey)Total UK Limited - Lindsey Oil Refinery Tel: 01469 563300 |
Lindsey Oil Refinery Ltd., located on the South Bank of the Humber estuary, is jointly owned by Total Oil Great Britain Limited and Fina plc.
The first stage of the refinery, having a crude processing capacity of 3.5 million tons per annum, came on-stream on 1st May 1968. Process units included crude distillation, LPG separation, naphtha hydrotreating and reforming, middle distillate desulphurisation, plus a utilities plant to supply steam, air, and a proportion of the electricity requirement.
A second parallel hydroskimming train was commissioned in the following year, adding a further 3.5 million tons per annum of crude processing capacity. In addition to duplicating the process units installed in the first phase, this expansion included pentanes/hexanes superfractionation, kerosene de-aromatization, sulphur recovery, vacuum distillation and bitumen production units.
During the seventies, revamps to both crude units and their downstream processes, increased the total crude processing capacity to the present level of 9.6 million tons per annum.
The next major expansion, to install conversion units, came on-stream in 1981 and included a vacuum distillation unit, fluid catalytic cracker and gas recovery unit, alkylation unit and a second sulphur recovery plant. As well as producing extra steam, the FCCU is equipped with a power recovery train to generate additional electricity. The initial throughput of the FCCU has been doubled through major revamps in 1985 and 1988 to a present capacity of 50,000 BPSD.
Conversion capacity was further increased in 1983 with the commissioning of a Visbreaker, a propylene/butylene catalytic polymerisation unit and a propylene/ propane splitter.
In 1987, a unit producing the high octane additive MTBE, and a TAME unit producing an octane-enhanced gasoline component, were installed to provide replacements for lead compounds in motor spirits. A butylene hydro-isomerisation was added in 1990, processing the alkylation unit feed to increase its product octane value.
In 1992, LOR installed an efficient biological treatment unit for waste water purification and was one of the first refineries to be so equipped.
In 1996, a combined heat and power facility was commissioned (a joint venture with National Power,) fuelled by natural gas, which produces high-pressure steam and sufficient electricity to satisfy the refinery's internal requirements and export to the National Grid.
The present refinery occupies 404 acres and additional land is owned for further development. Extensive landscaping has been carried out and more than 100 acres of adjacent land have been planted with both deciduous and coniferous trees. Consultants advised on the colour schemes used on the refinery to ensure that the whole complex blends in with the countryside.
Products are despatched by sea, road, rail and pipeline. Crude oil is imported through a sea terminal and jetty, constructed adjacent to the deep water port of Immingham. The jetty is capable of simultaneously berthing two 100,000 ton tankers, together with facilities for smaller tankers, coasters and barges for export of products. The terminal is connected to the refinery by three and a half miles of pipeline.
A second jetty, leased from the Ministry of Defence by LOR and Conoco Ltd., is used for white oil export and LPG import/export.
The jetties and terminals are operated by Associated Petroleum Terminals(Immingham) Limited, which is jointly owned by Lindsey Oil Refinery Limited and Conoco Limited.