Replacement Pipeline Route Consultation Brochure
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Replacement Pipeline Route Consultation Securing aviation fuel supplies in South East England For more information please visit 1 www.slpproject.co.ukReplacement Pipeline Route Consultation ESSO PETROLEUM COMPANY, LIMITED (REGISTERED IN ENGLAND: NUMBER 26538) ERMYN HOUSE, ERMYN WAY, LEATHERHEAD, SURREY, KT22 8UX References in this document to “Esso” or “our” or “we” are intended to refer to the applicant, Esso Petroleum Company, Limited and nothing in this document is intended to override corporate separateness. How we will use the information that you provide Esso Petroleum Company, Limited and our 3rd party project partners will store and process your data in full compliance with our legal obligations for the purposes of the application, development and operation of the proposed Southampton London Pipeline. Further details about how your data will be used can be found on the website (www.slpproject.co.uk), or by contacting us by email ([email protected]) or telephone (07925 068 905). If you would like a large text or alternative format of this document, please contact us by email [email protected] or telephone 07925 068 905. Requests for alternative formats will be considered on a case by case basis. We will, as far as possible and proportionate, respond to any requests that help you to take part in this consultation. © Crown copyright and database rights 2018 OS Licence Number AL100005237 2 Contents 04 CHAPTER 01 - Replacement pipeline route consultation 06 CHAPTER 02 - Why we are replacing the pipeline now 07 CHAPTER 03 - The project stages 08 CHAPTER 04 - What we have taken into consideration 10 CHAPTER 05 - Installing the pipeline 14 CHAPTER 06 - The Code of Construction Practice 16 CHAPTER 07 - The preferred route 56 CHAPTER 08 - Our environmental assessments 57 CHAPTER 09 - Preliminary Environmental Information summary 74 CHAPTER 10 - What you will see above ground 75 CHAPTER 11 - How we are working with landowners 76 CHAPTER 12 - How we are consulting 78 CHAPTER 13 - The application for development consent 79 CHAPTER 14 - Thank you 80 CHAPTER 15 - Replacement Pipeline Route Consultation Response Form 3 Replacement Pipeline Route Consultation CHAPTER 1 Replacement pipeline route consultation Welcome to our second In this consultation, we are asking for your views on a All of the consultation materials are available on our consultation for the Southampton to route for the replacement pipeline and in particular on website at www.slpproject.co.uk or you can call us to London Pipeline Project. the route ‘sub-options’ presented in this brochure. We request hard copies of any of the documents. developed the preferred route by reviewing the available Our aim for the project is to replace Our technical team will also be coming into communities local technical data and taking into account your route 90km of the 105km aviation fuel along the replacement pipeline route to answer any specific feedback from the initial consultation. We also pipeline that runs from our Fawley questions you might have. The programme of events can collected data from organisations such as local councils, Refinery near Southampton to our be found in Chapter 12. environmental specialists and utility companies, as well as West London Terminal storage undertaking our own studies. I hope you find this brochure useful in understanding our facility in Hounslow. proposals for the project. We encourage your participation The preferred route will be subject to change following Our first consultation in spring 2018 helped us to select as this will help us refine the route before our application the consultation, as we will listen to your feedback and our preferred corridor. I would like to take this opportunity for development consent. If you have any questions, or consider it before finalising the route, ahead of our to thank the 1000+ people who responded to the initial if you would like to register your feedback, please do not application for development consent. consultation, those who took the time to visit our events hesitate to get in touch with the project team. and the landowners and organisations who have been I understand that you may have concerns about the speaking with us since we launched the project in 2017. project. The information set out in this brochure will take Tim Sunderland | Project Executive The information you have provided has really helped us to you through the preferred route, which we have split into understand local community concerns. sections, and will provide more detail about the land we would look to use temporarily during the installation of the We have been listening and incorporating early feedback pipeline. It also includes our early findings about options to into our current proposals. For example, following the reduce or mitigate installation impacts – see Chapter 9. corridor consultation we removed the corridor sub- option that passed Frimley Park Hospital due to feedback around traffic management and obstruction to emergency services. You can have your say on the project at www.slpproject.co.uk This is the fastest and easiest way to take part in this consultation This consultation starts on 6 September and closes at 23:45 on 19 October 2018 4 About Esso Esso is a brand of ExxonMobil, which has operated in the UK for over 120 years. In the early days ExxonMobil imported high quality lamp oil to the UK market. Today our focus on quality fuels remains, but our operations are far more extensive. Esso owns and operates the UK’s largest refinery at Fawley, which provides fuel for more than 800,000 retail customers every day at Esso-branded service stations. Our underground distribution pipeline network transports fuel from Fawley to our fuel The stables at Ailsa Wharf, one of the first four distribution In 1910 a horse drawn van used by the Anglo-American Oil depots established in 1888 by Anglo-American Oil (as Esso Co. for the delivery of 2-gallon cans of petroleum spirit on the terminals at Avonmouth, Birmingham, Hythe, then was). Distribution was carried out by horse drawn tank Isle of Wight. Purfleet, West London and also for use at the UK’s car until after WW1. busiest airports. ExxonMobil is one of the UK’s largest petrochemical manufacturers with major plants at Fawley, Fife and Newport. ExxonMobil also holds an interest in nearly 40 producing oil and gas fields in the UK North Sea, and a stake in the South Hook Liquefied Natural Gas plant at Milford Haven in Wales, which has the capacity to import 20 percent of the UK’s gas demand. 1957-This truck (equipped with a metering device and 1963 - A workman applies a concrete coating to one of ticket printer) was used to deliver Esso Blue kerosene to the pipes from Fawley to London to protect them from any householders in London. damage which may occur on the river bed. : 5 Replacement Pipeline Route Consultation CHAPTER 2 Why we are replacing the pipeline now Pipelines take tankers off our roads originally used to transport a type of oil used by large industrial sites and oil-fired power stations. This type of oil iney il einery The UK is criss-crossed by a network of underground ancheter had to be kept above 50°C to enable it to flow through the fuel pipelines transporting diesel, petrol and aviation fuel. pipeline. During the 1980s when natural gas became more tanlow The pipelines are largely hidden from view. This is a safe, widely available in the UK, the need for this type of heating secure and low-impact method of moving fuel over long ottingha fuel dwindled. With the growth of air travel, the pipeline distances. was then used to transport aviation fuel. ingry According to the UK Petroleum Industry Association, iringha The existing pipeline is working adequately, but the need more than 30 million tonnes of fuels are safely transported for inspections and maintenance is increasing. It is just like through UK pipelines every year. This takes around one your car: you reach a point where it makes more sense to million tanker journeys off our roads, reducing traffic replace it. Peroe n eathrow congestion. Avonoth oryton hae ilor aven The Planning Act 2008 changed the way we seek We safely operate more than 700km (435 miles) of permission for important infrastructure – it introduced the rleet pipelines in the UK. All our pipelines are constantly atwic Development Consent Order process. We announced the monitored. We also inspect the pipelines frequently using project in December 2017 to allow sufficient time to gain internal pipeline inspection gauges, known as ‘PIGs’. The Fawley approval and build the replacement, while maintaining ground above each pipeline is also regularly inspected on the safe and secure movement of fuel along the existing foot and from the air. pipeline. We aim to maintain the safe and secure movement When the new pipeline is operational, typically the normal of fuel http://www.ukpia.com/industry_information/distribution.aspx approach is to take the old one permanently out of action The existing pipeline was built between 1969 and 1972. (decommissioning) by removing all fuel and filling the This pipeline was constructed differently to the other pipeline with grout. pipelines in our UK network. The existing pipeline was Keeping 100 road tankers off the road every day 95 eady-to oduct Fawle ef ansport b gr eline Based on Esso’s 2015 data for its existing pipeline 6 CHAPTER 3 The project stages INTRODUCING DEVELOPMENT OF APPLICATION THE PROJECT PREFERRED ROUTE SUBMISSION 7 2019 1 2 3 4 5 6 CONSULTATION ON PIPELINE CONSULTATION ON PROJECT CORRIDORS PREFERRED ROUTE STARTS 2021 Due to the length and purpose of the replacement Our initial consultation in spring 2018 helped us to need for access and construction management such pipeline, under the Planning Act 2008 this project is a 2 select the preferred corridor for the replacement as pipe lay down areas.