Sullom Voe Terminal

It handles production from oilfields in the North Sea and East Shetland Basin and stores oil before it is transported by tanker.

A bomb was detonated at the power station on the terminal at 12.05pm on the day of the ceremony which was attributed to the IRA by Connor McCarthy.

The terminal receives oil through the Brent (TAQA Bratani) and Ninian (EnQuest) pipeline systems.

[3] In the late 1990s at the height of North Sea Oil, the terminal handled over a quarter of UK petroleum production and around 500 people worked there.

[4] On 3 May 2018 it was reported that both the Brent and Ninian pipelines had to be shut down - halting production from the connecting fields in the East of Shetland basin.

Late on 6 May, EnQuest announced repair work had been completed and both the Brent and Ninian pipelines were reopened.

The 100 MWe plant has four 25 MW General Electric Frame 5 gas turbines and is part of a CHP system being built in the late 1970s.

When the oil terminal was at the height of its production, 70 MWe would be used from five gas turbines by the plant, but less is needed now.