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Isle of Grain Oil Refinery

 
Upchurch, Swale, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Address is taken from a point 4742 yards away.
 
Information about the place
Isle of Grain Oil Refinery is a place on the waterways on the River Medway (Tidal section) between Sheerness (Junction of River Medway with River Thames estuary) (4 miles and 1¾ furlongs to the northeast) and Brompton and Gillingham (4 miles and 2¼ furlongs to the west).
 
 
The nearest place in the direction of Sheerness is Mouth of Swale and Queensborough Pier; 1 mile and 4¾ furlongs away.

Mooring here is unrated.

Sheerness4 miles, 1¾ furlongs
Mouth of Swale and Queensborough Pier1 mile, 4¾ furlongs
Isle of Grain Oil Refinery
Brompton and Gillingham4 miles, 2¼ furlongs
Chatham7 miles, 6¼ furlongs
Medway - Thames and Medway Canal Junction8 miles, 6¾ furlongs
Rochester Bridge9 miles, 1¼ furlongs
Rochester Pier9 miles, 2¼ furlongs
 
 
Amenities

Amenities nearby at Brompton and Gillingham

 Frog & Toad
 Gillingham Marina
 
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water point
rubbish disposal
chemical toilet disposal
place to turn
self-operated pump-out
boatyard pump-out
Direction of TV transmitter (From Wolfbane Cybernetic)
 
 
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[Isle of Grain] Isle of Grain (Old English Greon meaning gravel) is a village and the easternmost point of the Hoo Peninsula within the district of Medway in Kent. No [Kent Refinery] The BP Refinery (Kent) was an oil refinery on the Isle of Grain in Kent. It was commissioned in 1953 and had a maximum processing capacity of 11 million [London Thamesport] Anglo-Persian Oil Company (later British Petroleum) developed a large oil refinery, Kent Oil Refinery, in the south of the Isle of Grain. A fuel depot [Grain Power Station] 11am on 7 September 2016. Grain adjoins the site of the BP Kent oil refinery, which closed in 1982. The station burned oil to drive, via steam turbines [Hoo Peninsula] on the Isle of Grain. In 1930 Berry Wiggins started the construction of an oil refinery and tank farm at Kingsnorth (TQ817723) on the site of a First [Petroleum refining in the United Kingdom] tonnes of petroleum products in 2015, down 19% from 2011. There are six major and one smaller petroleum refinery in the downstream sector of the UK oil industry [High Halstow] village to house Isle of Grain oil refinery employees. Historically, the main economic activity around High Halstow has been farming, but some of the village's [Oil terminals in the United Kingdom] Port Isle of Grain". Find a Port. Retrieved 15 July 2020. "Hallen GPSS fuel depot". Derelict places. Retrieved 16 July 2020. "Europe's biggest oil depot [Fred C. Koch] Texas, and later became chief engineer with the Medway Oil & Storage Company on the Isle of Grain in Kent, England. In 1925 he joined a fellow MIT classmate [Hundred of Hoo Railway] construction of an oil refinery, then one of the largest in the country, on the Isle of Grain by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which became part of BP in 1956
 
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The BP Refinery (Kent) was an oil refinery on the Isle of Grain in Kent. It was commissioned in 1953 and had a maximum processing capacity of 11 million ...
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Remains of BP oil refinery on the Isle of Grain (Google Maps). Construction of this facility for BP took from 1948 to 1952, and it suffered flooding...
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St James, Isle of Grain is a village and the easternmost point of the Hoo Peninsula within the ... Until 1982 it was home to a major oil refinery. Construction of this ...
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Finally closing in August 1982, the now partially disused Kent Oil Refinery could process 10 million tons of crude oil per year and fuelled the adjacent Grain ...
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The ANGLO‐IRANIAN OIL COMPANY'S new oil refinery on the Isle of Grain, Kent , operated by a subsidiary company, Kent Oil Refinery Limited, was ...
Arrival Of First Tanker To Kent Refinery (1952) - YouTube
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