Bacton Gas Terminal
| Bacton Gas Terminal | |
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Bacton Gas Terminal, from the west in 2007
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 Location within Norfolk
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| General information | |
| Type | Gas terminal |
| Location | Bacton, NR12 0JE |
| Coordinates | 52°51′39″N 1°27′27″E / 52.8608°N 1.4575°ECoordinates: 52°51′39″N 1°27′27″E / 52.8608°N 1.4575°E |
| Current tenants | Eni, National Grid, Shell UK, Perenco |
| Construction started | 13 August 1968 |
| Completed | 1968 |
| Cost | £10 million (Shell 1968), £5 million (Phillips 1969) |
| Height | 410-470ft (three radio masts) |
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| Floor area | 200 acres (0.81 km2) |
The Bacton Gas Terminal is a complex of six gas terminals within four sites located on the North Sea coast in North Norfolk near Paston and between Bacton and Mundesley. The nearest main town is North Walsham. The other main UK gas terminals which receive gas from the UK continental shelf are at St Fergus, Aberdeenshire; Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire; Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire; CATS Terminal, Teesside; and Rampside gas terminal, Barrow, Cumbria.
The Bacton complex which covers an area of about 180 acres (73 ha) opened during 1968. It has a frontage of 1 km (3200 feet) along the cliff top. It was initially built by Shell-Esso, Phillips Petroleum-Arpet Group, Amoco-Gas Council. Planning permission had been given on 16 June 1967 by Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood of Rossendale. The Leman field began production on 13 August 1968 (joint Shell-Esso and joint Amoco-Gas Council), the Hewett field (Phillips Petroleum-Arpet Group) began operations in July 1969 and the Indefatigable field (joint Shell-Esso and joint Amoco-Gas Council) began production in October 1971. Construction of the £5 million Phillips-Arpet plant began in April 1968. Gas from the Shell-Esso part of the Leman field was delivered to Bacton via a 34-mile-long pipeline. A 36-inch diameter 140-mile-long pipeline (Number 2 feeder main) costing £17 million was built by Italsider from Bacton to the National Transmission System near Rugby. When completed in 1968 the terminal had a total gas throughput capacity of 3,955 MMSCFD (112 million m3 a day). The Gas Council marketed the new North Sea gas as High Speed Gas.
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