tarboat's photos with the keyword: tanks

Outside the National Grid liquid petroleum gas storage site at Partington in Manchester. This was once the site of a large town gas works. Since my visit the site has been closed and completely cleared.

National Grid gas storage site at Partington in Manchester. This was once the site of a large town gas works to which this was a main entrance. Since my visit the site has been closed and completely cleared.

Tanks at the oil refinery operated by Eastham Refinery Limited, a joint operation between Nynas and Shell. The site operates a distillation unit established in 1966 and designed to run on heavy naphthenic crude. In 1989 the unit was expanded to provide a capacity of 1.2m tonnes per year. The main product is bitumen, both penetration and blown grades, and a range of distillates is also produced. These find outlets as gas oil, marine diesel, lubricating base stocks and in a broad spectrum of process industries. A separate blown bitumen unit completed in early 1990 provides additional capacity. It is the largest producer of bitumen in the United Kingdom with a capacity of 800,000 tonnes per year.

P&O ferry 'Pride of Hull' sits on the berth in the Humber close to the entrance lock to the King George V Dock at Hull. Sadly this ship is now crewed with cheap foreign labour after the company sacked all the existing crew of its various ferries. This ship is registered at Nassau in the Bahamas. The ferry service from Hull sails to Rotterdam every night.

National Grid gas storage site at Partington in Manchester. This was once the site of a large town gas works but then became a major natural gas facility which was used to boost supply at times of peak demand. Since my visit the site has been closed and completely cleared.

National Grid gas storage site at Partington in Manchester. This was once the site of a large town gas works to which this was a main entrance. Since my visit the site has been closed and completely cleared but the gates remain.

A small corner of the Cargill plant at Trafford Park.

Tanks at the extensive Collier industrial waste processing facility in Trafford Park.

Oxygen tanks at the Scunthorpe steelworks. These are for oxygen storage in case there is a problem with supply from BOC. There should be enough to finish off a Basic Oxygen Steelmaking vessel to prevent it being lost.

At the end of the long war of independence between Eritrea and Ethiopia vast quantities of wrecked military hardware littered the country. This was mostly gathered up and dumped in a vast scrapyard on the outskirts of Asmara the Eritrean capital. Here it will no doubt stay as moving it to where it could be melted down would be hopelessly uneconomic.

A small convoy from Manchester to Ellesmere Port is passing the Stanlow oil refinery. Narrowboat Victoria leads the way with Short Boat Severn close behind and then some way behind comes tanker narrowboat Spey. An easy short day's boating compared with the long haul via Middlewich and Chester.

Tanks for holding large quantities of olive oil produced in the region around Antequera in Andalusia, Spain.

The fuels storage capacity at Wick Harbour seems somewhat excessive to supply this fishing vessel. I suspect the fleet was actually out working.

This is the face of modern tomato growing. Tanks alongside the acres of greenhouses at Yew Tree Farm, Heald Green.

A line of tanks at the Scunthorpe steelworks. B to I are underneath. I am advised that they are for oxygen storage in case there is a problem with supply from BOC. Should be enough to finish off a BOS vessel to prevent losing a vessel.

If you like water tanks then the United States is the place to be. This plantation is on a commercial building in New York.

Cambrian Gas Ltd at Queensferry was established in 1990. It is Cheshire & North Wales' largest independent LPG supplier.

At the bottom of the Bulkeley waterworks railway is the pumping station operated by Severn Trent Water. This includes this array of Lancashire boilers reused as storage tanks,