15.04.08 Shetland to get new gas plant
Sullom Voe on the Shetland Islands is one of the big boys in the world of gas plants and now it’s set to get even bigger. It has been revealed this month that it will receive around £60 million to update its plant. BP, who operates the plant, has until 2010 to bring the 30 year-old plant into the new age, a challenge they confidently feel they can meet.
The plant currently brings in hundreds of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tankers a year and sends them off again fully stocked. But this is about to stop. The gas that is extracted from the North Sea and arrives at the plant will instead be re-injected into crude oil and then exported this way, or go to power the on-site power station.
As always with such a big business move, there are a lot of differing opinions in relation to how this massive expansion will affect staff at the plant. The plant’s management is insisting that it will create jobs in the first instance (but perhaps only due to the actual building of the site) but then make people redundant in the long term. BP has admitted that around 40 members of staff will be lost over the long term.
Whatever the case with staff numbers, the plans have been passed and the work is set to commence in Autumn 2008 and the actual building in Summer 2009.
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