Stanlow Refinery

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Stanlow Refinery is part of Shell Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, United Kingdom. The refinery occupies nearly 1,900 acres and dates back to 1924, when a small bitumen plant was established. [1]

Manchester Ship Canal from Ellesmere Port Dock towards Stanlow Refinery
Manchester Ship Canal from Ellesmere Port Dock towards Stanlow Refinery

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Crude oil is received at the Tranmere Oil Terminal on the River Mersey and is transferred via a 15 mile pipeline to storage at Stanlow. Output is delivered by pipeline via the UKOP pipeline, road, rail, and the Manchester Ship Canal.


Storage capacity: 2 million tonnes of crude oil and products [1]
Refining capacity: 12 million tonnes per year

  • Product output
  • petrol 3 million tonnes
  • diesel 3.5 million tonnes
  • kerosene/jet fuel 2 million tonnes
  • LPG & petrochemical feedstocks 1.5 million tonnes
  • Fuel oil 1 million tonnes

In 1980, the British synth pop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark featured a song about the refinery called Stanlow on their second album, Organisation.

  1. ^ a b Interactive Guide to UK Refineries: Stanlow (Shell). energyinst.org.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2007
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