Kingsbury Oil Terminal is an

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located to the northeast of the village of

Kingsbury, Warwickshire Kingsbury is a large village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. The civil parish population at the 2021 census was 7,562. The village is situated close t ...

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. It was opened in the late 1960s and serves the

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region. It is the largest inland oil storage depot in the

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. The main operators at the site are

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, Warwickshire Oil Storage Limited and

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. The site also has facilities from

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and pipeline operations from the British Pipeline Agency.

History

It opened on 19 March 1969, and officially opened on 24 March 1969 by

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, the Minister of Power, and also the Thames-Mersey oil pipeline, which cost £8.5m, being 245 miles. This pipeline would carry 4m tonnes of oil per year, at first, leading to 8m tonnes. There was an official luncheon at

The Belfry The Belfry is a golf resort and hotel in Wishaw, Warwickshire, close to Sutton Coldfield, England, located approximately 8 miles from the centre of Birmingham. It was acquired by KSL Capital Partners in August 2012. The resort has three golf ...

Wishaw, Warwickshire Wishaw is a village and civil parish in the north-west of Warwickshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 125. It is located within the district of North Warwickshire and is the home of ...

. It cost £3.5m, with 36 tanks, holding 200,000 tons. 200 road tankers would operate, with a 50 mile radius from the site. It was built for Regent Oil, Mobil, Shell-Mex and BP, and Petrofina. In August 2006 the terminal was targeted by terrorists as part of a terror plot involving several sites across the country.

Protests

During protests by

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and

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in April 2022, more than 100 climate activists, ages ranging between 25 and 71, were arrested. On 14 September 2022, 51

protesters were arrested for breach of court order after blocking the entrance to the Kingsbury Oil Terminal.

References

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Oil fuel distributors in Warwickshire
1969 establishments in England BP buildings and structures Buildings and structures in Warwickshire Energy infrastructure completed in 1969 Kingsbury, Warwickshire Oil terminals Petroleum infrastructure in the United Kingdom {{Warwickshire-geo-stub