Flotta Oil Terminal

 oil depot  Add category

 Upload a photo

The Flotta Oil Terminal started work in December 1976, and since then about 10% of the UK's oil output has come ashore here to be pumped into tankers for transport across the world.
Flotta Oil Terminal
In the history of Orkney's long association with the sea, the chapter covering the oil years opens in December 1976 with the arrival of the first North Sea crude at a terminal newly built on the island of Flotta.

Just under four years earlier the Occidental consortium, led by the American tycoon Dr Armand Hammer, struck oil around 135 miles south east of Orkney. This was the Piper field and its discovery was soon followed by another named Claymore.

Oxy, as the consortium came to be known, decided to bring the crude ashore by pipeline. The landfall would be Flotta – a choice dictated by the surrounding waters of the Flow.

www.orkneyharbours.com/flotta_terminal.asp
www.flashearth.com/?lat=58.837246&lon=-3.117247&z=15.4&...