Just months before it celebrates its 50th anniversary North Lincolnshire’s industrial icon, the Lindsey Oil Refinery, has been having an early birthday makeover courtesy of HBPW.
Associate Paul Jacklin was called in by owners, Total UK Ltd, and asked to produce the civil and structural design for a range of new contractor facilities.
He said: “The refinery entered service almost half a century ago in May 1968 and remains a major landmark in the North Killingholme area.
“Hundreds of contractors make up a key part of the workforce and Total asked us to prepare the drawings for three additional car parks with capacity for more than 230 vehicles.”
HBPW also provided foundation drawings for a new gatehouse with medical centre and a restaurant. Once approved modular buildings were then erected on site.
“These might seem like straightforward facilities, however, everything had to have the ability to resist severe blast loads,” added Paul.
The site, which employs in the region of 500 permanent staff alongside several hundred contractors, processes approximately 10,000,000 tons of crude oil a year, or 200,000 barrels per day via two pipelines, making it Britain’s third largest oil refinery.
It is named after the former Lindsey, a pre-1974 local government area within the county of Lincolnshire.
Client: Total UK Ltd