Eastham Oil Terminal

It was commissioned in 1954 close to the Queen Elizabeth II Dock and is a storage and export facility for oil products refined at Stanlow Refinery,[1] to which it is connected by pipeline.

[3] Construction of the Eastham oil terminal began in 1949 in association with the Queen Elizabeth II Dock.

[4] These facilities were built near Eastham locks at entrance of the Manchester Ship Canal on the River Mersey.

The new facilities at Eastham provided berthing for large tankers unable to access the ship canal.

The refinery took heavy naphthenic crude as a feedstock and produced bitumen and other distillate products such as gas oil, marine diesel, lubricating base stocks.

[13] Briggs Oil was acquired by the Swedish firm AB Nynas Petroleum in 1992 for £70 million; Shell retained its interest in the plant.

[16] The plant produces bitumen by a 2-stage distillation process using crude oil and refinery residues as feedstock.