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	Sullom Voe - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sullom Voe is an inlet between North Mainland and Northmavine on Shetland in Scotland, and an oil terminal sited on its shore.
		The loch, the longest in Shetland, and partially sheltered by the island of Yell was used as a military base during the Second World War both by the Norwegian Air Force and by the RAF because of its location.
		Air quality monitoring at Sullom Voe using lichens as biological indicator species: Results of the 1986 repeat photographic survey : report to the Shetland...
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /sullom_voe.htm (291 words)

	Sullom Voe Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		Sullom Voe is the sheltered inlet between North Mainland and Northmavine that leads out into Yell Sound.
		Named after the tiny settlement of Sullom on its east shore it was a quiet backwater, home to a few fishing settlements, until the onset of World War II.
		To protect the flying boat base, a fighter airfield was built at RAF Scatsta, also to the east of Sullom Voe.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.com /shetland/sullomvoe/index.html (681 words)

	Sullom voe oil terminal shetland - Boolgum : search engine ( synonyms Sullom voe oil terminal shetland and price ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		North Sea, the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal is located on Calback Ness in the Delting district of the Shetland Mainland...
		BP is set to cut more than 200 jobs at its Sullom Voe oil terminal in Shetland...
		The terminal's management said yesterday that Sullom Voe could still be operational well through the 2020s.
	www.boolgum.co.uk /search.php?q=Sullom+voe+oil+terminal+shetland (388 words)

	Esso Bernicia
		The vessel was carrying no cargo on her way to Sullom Voe and had 21,000 tons of clean ballast water and 39,000 tons of "dirty" (cargo tank) ballast water aboard.
		From Sullom Voe the vessel was scheduled to call at Slagen, Norway, to unload her cargo of crude oil.
		Due to her size and suitability for the short haul route from Sullom Voe it was decided that the tanker's working life should be extended.
	www.shetland.gov.uk /environmentalhealth/EssoBernicia.asp (615 words)

	Shetland Islands Council - Ports and Harbours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The largest port in Shetland is the major oil port of Sullom Voe, for which the Shetland Islands Council, as Harbour Authority, is responsible.
		Despite the fact that it is one of the largest, Sullom Voe is one of the cleanest oil ports in the world with no discernible effect on the harbour’s abundant marine life.
		In addition to Sullom Voe the Shetland Islands Council, as Harbour Authority, has responsibility for the operation of a number of smaller ports and piers located around the islands.
	content.shetland.gov.uk /ports (284 words)

	BBC News \| BUSINESS \| New boom oils island economy
		It is home to Sullom Voe, the biggest oil and gas terminal in Europe, owned by a consortium including BP Amoco and Shell.
		At its peak, Sullom Voe, built 20 years ago, was handling about 1.4 million barrels of oil a day.
		Orkney's Flotta terminal is often in contention with Sullom Voe, which BP operates on behalf of a number of oil companies.
	news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/business/newsid_1397000/1397176.stm (860 words)

	BBC - Education Scotland 14+ History - Social Change: Employment
		Sullom Voe was selected for the terminal and a deal was struck with the oil companies.
		Then it was loaded onto tankers berthed at the piers in the Voe that could take up to four 400 metre long tankers at any time.
		The construction of the oil terminal at Sullom Voe had an enormous effect on the islands' communities and economy, particularly throughout the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/education/hist/employment/oil/section_d/index.shtml (335 words)

	Shetland together - Sullom Voe, Shetland protest 8 March 03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sullom Voe Terminal in Shetland is one of the largest oil terminals in Europe.
		The majority of European produced oil flows through Sullom Voe.
		Two super tankers were in port loading oil as protesters arrived.
	www.shetlandtogether.org /svt0803.html (80 words)

	Northmavine Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		The complex geography at the southern end of Sullom Voe separates Northmavine from the Atlantic at Mavis Grind by not much more than 100m.
		This is at the heart of the little good farmland that exists on Northmavine and is one of the main centres of population in the area.
		Sullom was where, on 13 November 1939, the first bombs fell on British soil in World War II, presumably intended for the flying boat base at Sullom Voe.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /shetland/northmavine/index.html (673 words)

	University of Aberdeen at Offshore Europe 2001
		The Sullom Voe Association Limited (SVA) established in 1975, is a jointly-owned consortium of the Shetland Islands Council and the Brent and Ninian pipeline system partners in the North Sea.
		SVA, which is responsible for policy in operating Sullom Voe Terminal, reconstituted SVEAG in 1975, giving the new group, SOTEAG, greater scientific integrity through appointing an independent Chairman and Secretary, based at the University of Aberdeen, and extending its membership to include central government departments and local interests.
		In 2000, Sullom Voe was proposed by Scottish Natural Heritage under the EC Habitats Directive as a Special Area of Conservation, and this is an accolade to the way the Terminal and Port at Sullom Voe have been managed.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /oilgas/old_site/soteag.htm (1081 words)

	Shetlanders: we won’t stand by and let a massive quarry tear us apart - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Environmental groups are monitoring the situation in Sullom, while locals opposed to the plans are digging in for a long campaign against the quarry expansion.
		Helen Robertson, who runs an organic croft with her partner Stuart Balfour and their daughters Astri, two, and seven-month-old Ola, is dismayed by the prospect of dust, noise, pollution and vibration, as well as the powerlessness the community feels in the face of massive disruption.
		The suspicion is that Nicolson Plant was bought precisely to exploit Sullom quarry – and that the local council is not averse to the idea.
	www.sundayherald.com /45269 (1211 words)

	Sullom Voe gets surveyed
		A MAJOR environmental survey is being carried out at Sullom Voe, in Shetland, prior to the huge sea inlet being designated as a Special Area of Conservation by the European Commission.
		Sullom Voe was proposed under the EC Habitats Directive as a representative of Scotland's large shallow inlets and bays, lagoons and reefs, and this places added responsibility on the government and other agencies to safeguard its important natural features.
		Several heated discussion were held during the last council on the subject, as the huge sea inlet was seen as a valuable resource for aquaculture that remained unexploited due to green tape.
	www.shetland-news.co.uk /archives/pages/news%20stories/2004/september_2004/sullom_voe_gets_surveyed.htm (534 words)

	Sullom Voe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sullom Voe is an inlet between North Mainland and Northmavine on Shetland in Scotland, and an oilterminal sited on its shore.
		The loch, the longest in Shetland, and partially sheltered by the island of Yell wasused as a military base during the Second World War both by the Norwegian Air Force and by the RAF because of its location.
		When crude oil was discovered in the North Sea in the 1970s, Sullom Voe became the location of an oil terminal(the largest in Europe), north east of the village of Brae, which was completed in 1982.
	www.therfcc.org /sullom-voe-177126.html (142 words)

	Braving northern storms - hilti.com
		Sullom Voe hosts one of the biggest oil terminals in Europe.
		Amec, the company originally assigned overall responsibility for construction of the facilities at Sullom Voe, now continues to maintain the terminal in top form.
		Customers at Sullom Voe keep Bryan Main busy for three days on each visit before he drives back to Lerwick to board the ferry for Aberdeen.
	www.hilti.com /holcom/modules/editorial/edit_singlepage.jsp?contentOID=62316 (374 words)

	The Scotsman - Business - BP inquiry into tanker cracks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		THE oil giant BP yesterday ordered an urgent investigation at its giant Sullom Voe terminal on Shetland after cracks were found on a single-hulled tanker, leased by the company to ship 106,000 tonnes of crude oil to America.
		The Norwegian tanker, the Arendal, was detained by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency early yesterday after one of the marine authority’s surveyors found the defects in a main ballast tank during an inspection of the vessel.
		A spokesman for the MCA said: "At about 1am this morning, the single-hulled oil tanker Arendal, loaded with 106,000 tonnes of crude oil, was detained at Sullom Voe in Shetland after deficiencies were found by a MCA surveyor during his inspection of the vessel.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /business.cfm?id=150852003 (500 words)

	Sullom Voe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the coming of the oil terminal, the remains of the airbase were upgraded and modernised to create Scatsta Airport which is primarily used to service the terminal.
		The first crude oil was discovered in the North Sea in 1969, and soon thereafter Sullom Voe became the location of an oil terminal (the largest in Europe), north east of the village of Brae, which became operational in 1975 and was completed in 1982.
		It has recently begun to serve North Atlantic oil fields as well.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sullom_Voe (225 words)

	I can't help thinking... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		5 Slavonian Grebes in Tresta Voe and 2 Moorhens at Strand, Grebes in Tresta Voe and 2 Moorhens at Strand.
		Flycatcher is at Voe Send in your news is at Voe, is at Voe, is at Voe; is at Voe Paul Sclater Is at Voe.
		Voe sales@richheape.com Voe; Grebes and a similar number of Little Auks in Sullom Voe and lots of Razorbills, Common Scoters off Lunna.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /~luoma/peace/dist/cdir/AaBcACNAOraauf.html (3424 words)

	D'Arcy Collection: "Catalina!" by Bill Perring. Published by D'arcy Collection.
		John, along with his friend and former wireless operator, John Appleton, was there for the unveiling, but after only the briefest of introductions it was into flying suits and off to board one of the station’s Nimrods.
		A special flight out to their wartime base in the Shetlands had been arranged and so my first questions were put as we circled Sullom Voe at around 400ft.
		The painting shows the return of the aircraft to Sullom Voe with dinghies in attendance and a seaplane tender racing alongside the damaged plane to give immediate aid.
	members.aol.com /blyndbat/cat.htm (846 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Business - BP to axe 200 at Sullom Voe terminal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The move follows a review by the company which it hopes will pave the way for a restructuring of operations designed to extend the life of the terminal beyond 2015.
		The company is also establishing a community liaison group with local councillors and Shetland Enterprise to help manage the effect of the change on the overall Shetland economy.
		Sullom Voe, one of the largest oil and liquefied gas terminals in Europe, began operations 25 years ago and produced 1.5 million barrels of oil per day at its peak.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /business.cfm?id=1297942002 (576 words)

	Brae Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		Four hundred yards to the north is the southern end of Sullom Voe.
		But Brae was still very small when in the early 1970s Europe's largest construction site got under way at Sullom Voe, a few miles to the north.
		Particularly worth mentioning, just west of the junction with the B9076 to Sullom Voe, is the general store that sells some of the best sandwiches you will find in the northern half of Mainland Shetland.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /shetland/brae (617 words)

	Newsroom - Press Releases
		Shetland Coastguard were tonight alerted to the 53,387 gross registered tonne tanker the `Alandia Lynx' which reported at 20: 17 hrs that she had lost her main engine power at the entrance to Sullom Voe, and was drifting northwards.
		Two stand-by vessels from Sullom Voe, the `Tystie' and the `Dunter' were alerted to go to her aid.
		Upon arrival lines from the tugs were put on the tanker to correct her drift and hold her steady whilst she made running repairs which the Master indicated would take about 3 hours.
	www.mcga.gov.uk /c4mca/lrgtxt/mcga-dops_pr_newsroom-press-releases-release.htm?mcga_news_id=1692&month=12&year=1998 (247 words)

	Modern ports: A UK policy - Annex 2: Case studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Port of Sullom Voe was established on a greenfield site within a pristine environment in Shetland almost 25 years ago.
		From the outset the council, as the statutory harbour authority, determined that it would enforce a transparent regulatory regime on the tanker traffic to Sullom Voe, rooted mainly in international conventions.
		The council ensures that the passage of every tanker trading to Sullom Voe is planned from a position approximately 200 miles from the pilot station to the berth.
	www.dft.gov.uk /stellent/groups/dft_shipping/documents/page/dft_shipping_505277-08.hcsp (977 words)

	dti: Oil and Gas Directorate - Environment: Decisions on environmental statements
		BP propose constructing a subsea pipeline to carry natural gas from the Foinaven, Schiehallion and Loyal fields west of Shetland to the Sullom Voe Terminal in Shetland.
		The gas will be treated at Sullom Voe terminal and enriched with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), which is currently exported by tanker.
		A further subsea pipeline from Sullom Voe to the Magnus platform will transport the enriched gas where it will be injected into the oil-bearing rock using wells designed for gas injection.
	www.og.dti.gov.uk /environment/permits/esa_10.htm (524 words)

	The Sullom Voe, Shetland, Pilotage (Amendment) Order 1987
		This Order may be cited as the Sullom Voe, Shetland, Pilotage (Amendment) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 3rd June 1987.
		There shall be established a pilotage district to be known as the Sullom Voe, Shetland, Pilotage District consisting of two parts, the limits of which shall be, respectively:—
		This Order is made in consequence of an application by the Shetlands Island Council as pilotage authority for the Sullom Voe, Shetland, Pilotage District.
	www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk /si/si1987/Uksi_19870843_en_1.htm (538 words)

	Cracks found in oil tanker
		The 235-metre Norwegian tanker, the "Arandal", was loading at the Sullom Oil Voe terminal when the defect was discovered.
		The 17-year-old vessel is being kept in port by surveyors from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and 60,000 tonnes of oil has been removed from the tanks.
		The vessel has been placed under detention at Sullom Voe until it can be discharged following assessment and repairs.
	www.eurocbc.org /page706.html (275 words)

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	www.picturesofengland.com /Scotland/Shetland/Sullom_Voe_Oil_Terminal/hotels (295 words)

	UFB Ltd - UFB VALVES – STEAM INTO SULLOM VOE WITH LEF July 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lerwick Engineering and Fabrication Limited, contracted by BP to carry out the refurbishment of the system, placed their order for the Class 800 Welded Bonnet Valves with UFB Limited in June of this year.
		Since 2002 LEF have held the contract, awarded by BP, to supply off-site fabrication and on-site welding services at the Sullom Voe Terminal.
		Still one of Europe’s largest oil terminals Sullom Voe celebrated their 25th.
	www.ufbltd.co.uk /news/july2004.html (263 words)

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