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Occidental Refinery, the Glossary

The Occidental Refinery (or Occidental Thames Refinery) was a planned oil refinery on Canvey Island, Essex, England.^[1]

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Buildings and structures in Essex
Canvey Island
Oil refineries in the United Kingdom
Science and technology in Essex

Agip

Agip S.p.A., acronym for Azienda generale italiana petroli, was an Italian automotive gasoline, diesel, LPG, lubricants, fuel oil, and bitumen retailer established in 1926 and subsidiary of Eni S.p.A. In 2013 Agip merged into Eni, creating the Refining and Marketing Division (R&M).

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Alkylation unit

An alkylation unit (alky) is one of the conversion processes used in petroleum refineries.

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Anthony Crosland

Charles Anthony Raven Crosland (29 August 191819 February 1977) was a British Labour Party politician and author.

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Basildon

Basildon is a town in the borough of the same name, in the county of Essex, England.

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Bitumen

Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum.

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Board of Trade

The Board of Trade is a British government body concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for Business and Trade.

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British Gas

British Gas (trading as Scottish Gas in Scotland) is an energy and home services provider in the United Kingdom.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997.

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Butane

Butane or n-butane is an alkane with the formula C4H10.

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Canvey Island

Canvey Island is a town, civil parish and reclaimed island in the Thames estuary, near Southend-on-Sea, in the Castle Point district, in the county of Essex, England.

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Canvey Wick

Canvey Wick is a Site of Special Scientific Interest at the south-west corner of Canvey Island in Essex. Occidental Refinery and Canvey Wick are Canvey Island.

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Catalytic reforming

Catalytic reforming is a chemical process used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas distilled from crude oil (typically having low octane ratings) into high-octane liquid products called reformates, which are premium blending stocks for high-octane gasoline.

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Coryton Refinery

Coryton Refinery was an oil refinery in Essex, England, on the estuary of the River Thames from central London, between Shell Haven Creek and Hole Haven Creek, which separates Canvey Island from the mainland. Occidental Refinery and Coryton Refinery are oil refineries in the United Kingdom.

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Deadweight tonnage

Deadweight tonnage (also known as deadweight; abbreviated to DWT, D.W.T., d.w.t., or dwt) or tons deadweight (DWT) is a measure of how much weight a ship can carry.

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Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) was a United Kingdom government department formed on 19 October 1970.

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Desalter

A desalter is a process unit in an oil refinery that removes salt from the crude oil.

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Desulfurization

Desulfurization or desulphurisation is a chemical process for the removal of sulfur from a material.

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Diesel fuel

Diesel fuel, also called diesel oil, heavy oil (historically) or simply diesel, is any liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignition takes place without a spark as a result of compression of the inlet air and then injection of fuel.

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Distillation

Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixture and the condensation of the vapors in a still.

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Eni

Eni S.p.A., acronym for and formerly legally known as Ente nazionale idrocarburi (National Hydrocarbons Board), is an Italian multinational energy company headquartered in Rome.

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Enrico Mattei

Enrico Mattei (29 April 1906 – 27 October 1962) was an Italian public administrator.

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Essex County Council

Essex County Council is the county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Essex in England.

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Evelyn Sharp, Baroness Sharp

Evelyn Adelaide Sharp, Baroness Sharp, GBE (25 May 1903 – 1 September 1985) was a British civil servant.

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Fixed roof tank

A fixed roof tank is a type of storage tank, used to store liquids, consisting of a cone- or dome-shaped roof that is permanently affixed to a cylindrical shell.

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Fluid catalytic cracking

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is the conversion process used in petroleum refineries to convert the high-boiling point, high-molecular weight hydrocarbon fractions of petroleum (crude oils) into gasoline, alkene gases, and other petroleum products.

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the ministry of foreign affairs and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Fuel oil

Fuel oil is any of various fractions obtained from the distillation of petroleum (crude oil).

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Gasoline

Gasoline or petrol is a petrochemical product characterized as a transparent, yellowish, and flammable liquid normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines.

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Geoffrey Rippon

Aubrey Geoffrey Frederick Rippon, Baron Rippon of Hexham, PC, QC (28 May 1924 – 28 January 1997) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Health and Safety Executive

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a British public body responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare.

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Horton sphere

A Horton sphere (sometimes spelled Hortonsphere), also referred to as a spherical tank or simply sphere, is a spherical pressure vessel, which is used for industrial-scale storage of liquefied gases.

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Hydrogen fluoride

Hydrogen fluoride (fluorane) is an inorganic compound with chemical formula.

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Hydrogen sulfide

Hydrogen sulfide is a chemical compound with the formula.

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Industrial furnace

An industrial furnace, also known as a direct heater or a direct fired heater, is a device used to provide heat for an industrial process, typically higher than 400 degrees Celsius.

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Iranian Revolution

The Iranian Revolution (انقلاب ایران), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution (label), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, as the monarchical government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was superseded by the theocratic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious cleric who had headed one of the rebel factions.

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Jet fuel

Jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF, also abbreviated avtur) is a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines.

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Kent Refinery

The BP Refinery (Kent) was an oil refinery on the Isle of Grain in Kent. Occidental Refinery and Kent Refinery are History of the petroleum industry in the United Kingdom and oil refineries in the United Kingdom.

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Kerosene

Kerosene, or paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum.

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Liquefied petroleum gas

Liquefied petroleum gas, also referred to as liquid petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas), is a fuel gas which contains a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases, specifically propane, ''n''-butane and isobutane.

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London, Tilbury and Southend line

The London, Tilbury and Southend line, also known as Essex Thameside, is a commuter railway line on the British railway system.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Ministry of Housing and Local Government

The Ministry of Housing and Local Government was a United Kingdom government department formed following the Second World War, covering the areas of housing and local government.

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Ministry of Power (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Power was a United Kingdom government ministry dealing with issues concerning energy.

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Murco Petroleum

Murco is an oil refining company based in the United Kingdom.

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Murphy Oil

Murphy Oil Corporation is a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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Occidental Petroleum

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States and the Middle East as well as petrochemical manufacturing in the United States, Canada, and Chile.

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Octane rating

An octane rating, or octane number, is a standard measure of a fuel's ability to withstand compression in an internal combustion engine without causing engine knocking.

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Oil refinery

An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.

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Permanent secretary

A permanent secretary is the most senior civil servant of a department or ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day activities.

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Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester

Peter Edward Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, (25 March 1932 – 23 June 2010) was a British Conservative politician who served in Cabinet under Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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Propane

Propane is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula.

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Public inquiry

A public inquiry, also known as a tribunal of inquiry, government inquiry, or simply inquiry, is an official review of events or actions ordered by a government body.

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Richard Crossman

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman (15 December 1907 – 5 April 1974) was a British Labour Party politician.

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Richard Ward (British Army officer)

General Sir Richard Erskine Ward, (15 October 1917 – 11 August 1989) was a British Army officer who served in the Second World War with distinction and later became Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong.

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River Thames

The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.

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Secretary of State for Economic Affairs

The Secretary of State for Economic Affairs was briefly an office of Her Majesty's government in the United Kingdom.

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Secretary of State for the Environment

The secretary of state for the environment was a UK cabinet position, responsible for the Department of the Environment (DoE).

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Shell Haven

Shell Haven was a port on the north bank of the Thames Estuary at the eastern end of Thurrock, Essex, England and then an oil refinery. Occidental Refinery and Shell Haven are History of the petroleum industry in the United Kingdom, oil refineries in the United Kingdom and Science and technology in Essex.

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Site of Special Scientific Interest

A site of special scientific interest (SSSI) in Great Britain, or an area of special scientific interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland, is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.

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Sour gas

Sour gas is natural gas or any other gas containing significant amounts of hydrogen sulfide (H2S).

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South Benfleet

South Benfleet is a town in the Castle Point district of Essex, England, 30 miles east of London.

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Southend-on-Sea

Southend-on-Sea, commonly referred to as Southend, is a coastal city and unitary authority area with borough status in south-eastern Essex, England.

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Storage tank

Storage tanks are containers that hold liquids or compressed gases.

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Sulfur

Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.

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Sulfur dioxide

Sulfur dioxide (IUPAC-recommended spelling) or sulphur dioxide (traditional Commonwealth English) is the chemical compound with the formula.

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Thiol

In organic chemistry, a thiol, or thiol derivative, is any organosulfur compound of the form, where R represents an alkyl or other organic substituent.

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1973 oil crisis

In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries who had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occidental_Refinery

Also known as Occidental refinery Canvey Island, Occidental refinery, Canvey Island.

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Buildings and structures in Essex

Canvey Island

Oil refineries in the United Kingdom

Science and technology in Essex

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