Page 78 - FINAL Phillips 66 50 Year Book

Working with colleagues in upstream and crude oil trading, the refinery
took advantage of an opportunity, incorporating a new vacuum unit
and heavily modifying one of the two existing crude processing trains
to handle pure acidic crude. Its construction saw what was probably, at
that time, the largest module ever moved along a UK road. It weighed
1,500 tonnes and was 12 storeys high. More than 1,000 workers from
20 sub-contracting companies worked on the £85 million project, and it
started up in September. In 1997, a model of the unit was donated and
put on display at Immingham Museum.

In September, the first direct monthly cargo of crude oil from the
Heidrun field arrived at Humber Refinery. The Statoil tanker Hanne
Knutson offloaded 860,000 barrels at Tetney monobuoy. The acidic
oil was processed in the refinery’s new vacuum unit, specially built to
handle it and the only one in Europe with this ability, and a new storage
tank was built at the Tetney tank farm too.

Above: No.3 Vacuum Unit.
Right: Hanne Knutson tanker connected to Tetney monobuoy.