Page 85 - FINAL Phillips 66 50 Year Book

The new plant produced 24 megawatts of electricity from four gas
turbines and provided steam from four associated waste heat boilers
- fuelled by surplus refinery gas and supplemented by natural gas from
the Theddlethorpe terminal.

Turning muck into brass was the name of the game in the summer
of 1997 when a waste minimisation trial was carried out during a
maintenance shutdown. The scheme – that saw waste recycled
instead of being placed in landfill, such as newspaper, cardboard,
scrap metal and wood - saved £34,000 on the cost of waste disposal
compared to previous shutdowns. Anything that couldn’t be recycled
was compressed to reduce its volume. Not only did it also save money
on the £7 a ton landfill tax, it also generated income for the refinery. For
example, 441 tons of spent catalyst waste went to a company in Texas
for metal recovery and 91 tons of reformer catalyst waste to California
for platinum recovery, and 50 tons of scrap metal recovered from
general waste was sold for £1,800. And the benefits didn’t stop there.
A total of 2.5 tons of wood chippings went to the refinery’s own nature
reserve, Houlton’s Covert, to create paths.

In September, ConocoWorld reported on a mock maritime emergency
operation in the Humber Estuary to rescue a rag dummy. As the tanker
Seillean discharged its cargo at the Tetney monobuoy nearby, a mock
drama was being enacted on board workboat Spurn Haven II. A yellow
rescue helicopter hovered over the stern as participants from Conoco,
the RAF and firefighters experienced dealing with a huge challenge –
fire at sea. The operation was the second of three weekly exercises
involving Spurn Haven II, each with a different scenario.