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Sullom Voe

The Terminal situated at Calback Ness on a site of approximately 400 hectares (1,000 acres) on the shores of Sullom Voe, 46Km (29 miles) north of Lerwick. BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd operates the terminal on behalf of companies participating in the Brent and Ninian pipeline groups. The terminal currently has a throughput design capacity of 1.2 million barrels of crude oil per day and reached a peak in 1984 with a total receipt of 439, 434, 656 barrels (58,328,785 tonnes). It now averages over 650,000 barrels per day.

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