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the water stay on top”. The refinery already had two of Williams’s
smaller guns but required the larger one as storage tanks in the oil
industry were increasing in size.

Meanwhile, Conoco signed a 10-year multi-million-pound fuelling
deal to supply Humberside International Airport after three years of
successfully working together. As ever, Conoco proved its worth and
invested at the airport, pledging to build a fuel farm there, to store not
only fuel for aircraft but also for the use of airport vehicles and hire cars.
At the time, Conoco supplied eleven regional airports around the UK.

As much as the refinery cares for the community it lives in, the sense of
togetherness also comes strongly from within. During 1995, everyone
at the refinery was recruited as environmental stewards to help
make their performance in this area – already widely acknowledged
as among the best in the country – even better. It was branded as ‘a
shift of emphasis with the emphasis on the shift’; more responsibility
for continuing improvement was placed directly in the hands of the
individual employee, the very people who have the closest contact with
the processes and practices which could cause pollution.

Above: Concorde at Humberside Airport.
Although £40 million had been spent over the last two years on
improving environmental performance, the company knew that much
more could be achieved by involving people more closely. After all,
communities live in the refinery’s shadow – and one of the company’s
many commitments remains now as it did then: people are key.