North Sea oil terminals
13 crude oil terminals around the North Sea and beyond, with throughput where the operator, council or port publishes it: Sullom Voe (Shetland), Flotta (Orkney), Hound Point (Forth, the Forties Pipeline System), Teesside (Norpipe from Ekofisk), Finnart, Tranmere and Immingham (refinery import terminals), Mongstad and Sture in Norway, and the big continental import hubs at Rotterdam, Wilhelmshaven, Gdańsk and Trieste.
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| Terminal | Country | Role | Published throughput |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sullom Voe | United Kingdom | crude loading terminal | 2024: 28.0 million barrels received (Shetland Islands Council) 1984: 439.4 million barrels received (peak year) (Shetland Islands Council) |
| Flotta | United Kingdom | crude loading terminal | 2023-24: 1.4 million tonnes crude loaded (16 tankers) (Orkney Islands Council, Harbour Authority annual performance report 2023-24 (April to March)) |
| Hound Point and Kinneil (Forties Pipeline System) | United Kingdom | crude export terminal | 2025: 62.9 million barrels through the Forties Pipeline System (INEOS FPS Environmental Public Statement 2025) 2024: 68.7 million barrels (INEOS FPS Environmental Public Statement 2024) 2023: 75.4 million barrels (INEOS FPS Environmental Public Statement 2023) |
| Teesside oil terminal (Seal Sands) | United Kingdom | crude reception terminal (Norpipe) | not published |
| Finnart Ocean Terminal | United Kingdom | crude import terminal | not published |
| Tranmere Oil Terminal | United Kingdom | crude import terminal | not published |
| Immingham Oil Terminal | United Kingdom | crude import terminal | not published |
| Mongstad | Norway | crude terminal and refinery | not published |
| Sture | Norway | crude terminal | not published |
| Rotterdam (Maasvlakte Olie Terminal) | Netherlands | crude import hub | 2025: 101.2 million tonnes crude oil, whole port, in and out (Port of Rotterdam, throughput 2025) 2024: 97.8 million tonnes crude oil, whole port (Port of Rotterdam, throughput 2025) |
| Wilhelmshaven (NWO) | Germany | crude import terminal | not published |
| Gdańsk (Naftoport) | Poland | crude import terminal | 2025: 37.4 million tonnes crude oil handled (record) (Naftoport, reported by PortalMorski.pl) |
| Trieste (SIOT, Transalpine Pipeline) | Italy | crude import terminal | 2025: 41.6 million tonnes crude oil into the Transalpine Pipeline (422 tankers) (TAL) |
The Peterhead puzzle
Peterhead check (r26): from January 2023 HMRC shows about 0.6 to 0.9 Mt a month of Norwegian crude "imported" at Peterhead, which has no crude import terminal. The same Norwegian stream was recorded at Middlesbrough until December 2022 (about 0.7 to 0.9 Mt a month) and at Aberdeen in March, April and August 2025, and the three never overlap. We read it as the Norpipe pipeline crude from Ekofisk into the Teesside terminal under a changed customs port code, so it is shown only on the Teesside oil terminal, labelled, and not on any refinery.
HMRC records crude imports by the port where customs entry is made. This is crude LANDED at the port, not refinery intake: it misses UK crude delivered by pipeline (Forties to Kinneil, Brent to Sullom Voe) in some months cargoes were recorded with no port (notably September 2022 to May 2023), and one port can serve several sites.
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