Chip Sengravy

I saw, probably for the first time I can think of, a tanker marked avaition fuel this morning.

How do they move it around, you never really see it and the industry must guzzle mega gallons of it.

Is it piped around the country?

davegtt

In a tanker obviously if you saw one this morning

Chip Sengravy

Answers by PM only please, too many d1ckheads on here

Chris L

There are pipelines that feed Heathrow and Gatwick - they run for miles and are actually part of the CNI (critical national infrastructure) - one of them came from Buncefield. Exact locations are generally not disclosed for obvious reasons but you will sometimes come across them when buying houses or land as it is noted where the pipelines run and there are restrictions on building on them.

SJ_Skyline

Details of some of the pipelines can be found here : Linewatch - Pipe network

You can drill down and see that the pipe from Buncefield to Heathrow is currently operating at 1200psi - just what you need to know on a Friday afternoon!

Chip Sengravy

Good find!

Interesting stuff, the shell line is 250mm bore @ 1400 psi, that's a serious amount of fuel delivery

FlightMan

I used to fix the PC that controlled the pipelines from Fawley refinery to Heathrow, Gatwick and Birmingham. Sophisticated operation it was, all run by an IBM AT PC!

The Heathrow pipline runs right through Blacknest Golf Course, and you can see the Alton pumping station from the A31.

alpha charlie

Reackon I must drive over one every time I leave home and head west
Cheers
AC

Chip Sengravy

I'm bored, and the shell line from grangemouth to stanlow ( assuming a distance of approx 300 KM) contains over 17 million litres or approx 3.75 million gallons of fuel, static. If you scoob does 30 to the gallon, it would allow a daily commute, to the moon, for a year, assuming a 5 day week and 25 days holiday. ( excluding bank holidays ).

Ray_li

Time to buy a house above one of the lines

Chip Sengravy

I just did some quick calcs, and if you were to buy a house above said line, and connect on with 6mm bore hose, you could draw enough fuel to run a takeaway longer than the sun's expected lifespan of 5 billion years.

££££££££££'s

dpb

is it levitation

Clarebabes

Interesting question.

Vampire

Most military bases have it piped in too. Once it's on the base it gets moved around by tanker.

TopBanana

They fly it in of course. Duh

Kit B

There is about 20 odd tankers a day arrive from Grangemouth to supply the tanks at Edinburgh.

What i didn't know until recently is that the tankers which drive around and fuel the planes airside are not legal to drive out on normal roads ( ie.. Landside )..

The tanks on the airside vehicles are single skinned to get the maximum amount of fuel to the planes.

They have to be double skinned and baffled inside to be legal on the roads..

Everyday is a school day as they say

Ray_li

I was thinking of selling fuel on the black market however if you want to run a takeaway go for it

corradoboy

The fuel for Tenerefe airport is taken in by tanker. I know this 'cos I once put a rented Vauxhaul Corsa underneath one A fitting end for the POS, just thankful neither of us were hurt whilst doing the car community this good deed

Chip

I work on these lines and they generally run at about 50-60 Bar which, believe me, when your drilling into it live is quite enough pressure to deal with.

Some of these lines also have fibre optic cables running through them for use by the military.

Chip

fast bloke

I used to fix the one that supplied Belfast City. In 2002 it was a 286 SX. I was really happy that they used a 286 DX for air traffic control. It was so much more advanced

g7prs

iTrader: (5)

Chip the lines that leave grangemouth are ethelyene lines not petrol.

Leslie

Pipelines as on some RAF ststions too.

Les

Chip Sengravy

Isn't ethelyene the material the pipe is made of ?

Steve vRS

You are thinking of polyethylene, the plastic made from...you guessed it, ethylene.

Pipelines run from Grangemouth to Teeside and over to Stanlow in Cheshire.

Polypropylene is made from...propylene!

I'm currently working on a PP plant in South Africa!

Steve

g7prs

iTrader: (5)

Well said that man! I work at the grangemouth end of the pipeline.

nooobyscooby

What's the octane rating of AVGAS?

nooobyscooby

I used to fill up with Esso at the filling station on the dual carriageway from the M25 to T4. The car always ran noticably better and when I asked around, locals said it was because of the volume of fuel the garage sold and the fact it came from a tank farm very close by which was serviced by the pipelines.

I can only assume the octane rating was a couple of points above average as the fuel was so fresh.

j4ckos mate

if you look on the "secret bases" website it mentions them extensively

Apparition

Fascinating..... no I'm not taking the p*ss. Just think what the naughty people could do with this info . Scarey thought.
Yve

Leslie

It used to be up to about 130 octane if I remember rightly. Used to get terrible deposits in the combustion chambers from all the lead in it.

Les