Lindsey Oil Refinery

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Lindsey Oil Refinery is a TOTAL owned oil refinery on Eastfield Road in North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire, England. It lies immediately south of the Humber Refinery owned by rival oil company ConocoPhillips, being south of the railway line.

1 History and operation
2 Local impact
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History and operation

The refinery entered service in 1968 and currently employs around 500 members of TOTAL staff, as well as several hundred contractors, rising to up to several thousand during major turnaround and maintenance projects. It is named after the former Lindsey pre-1974 local government area of Lincolnshire.

It processes approximately 10,000,000 tons of crude oil per year, or 200,000 barrells per day. This makes Lindsey Britain's third largest oil refinery.

Crude oil is imported via two pipelines, connecting the 1,000-metre jetty five miles away at Immingham Dock, to the refinery.

Refinery at night

[edit] Local impact

The refinery's presence causes a considerable amount traffic to pass through the village of North Killingholme at the time of work shifts commencing and ending. This has caused some disputes with the refinery's neighbouring community.

In December 2004, TOTAL were fined £12,500 for allowing 60,000 litres of crude oil to leak into the Humber estuary.^[1]