Braefoot Marine Terminal
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Braefoot Marine Terminal by James Allan as part of the Geograph project.
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Braefoot Marine Terminal
Image: © James Allan Taken: 2 Mar 2007
Liquid gas from the North Sea is piped to Mossmorran Imagesome 6km north of here. There it is broken down to form ethane and converted into ethylene, a basic hydrocarbon 'building block' of the petrochemical industry. These products are piped to the Braefoot Bay Marine Terminal and loaded into tankers and gas carriers for markets on the European continent and in the USA.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.038884
Longitude
-3.315762