Petroleum Tower
Introduction
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Petroleum Tower
Image: © Raymond Okonski Taken: 5 May 2007
This strange structure has signs warning of 'Industrial Effluent'. However this isn't the whole story as four large-bore pipes leave the Petro-Chemical works and cross the River Carron on a raised bridge (at NS914823). They then go underground along the northern River Carron shore, with regular raised brick-built inspection hatches. The pipes pass under this tower, before heading across Scotland to the deep-loch oil transfer station on Loch Fyne. Tankers arriving there have their cargo pumped across Scotland, to be refined here at Grangemouth.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.028236
Longitude
-3.720914