Refinery by night

Grangemouth Refinery, viewed from the town's golf club.

Grangemouth is the only oil refinery in Scotland, and takes the crude oil output from the North Sea fields, currently handling some 10 million tonnes of crude each year. Some of the refined product is piped to Hound Point just downstream of the Forth Bridge and some to the deep water terminal at Finnart on Loch Long. North Sea oil is such a critical part of the Scottish economic equation that the importance of Grangemouth cannot be overstated.

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