2022

SU6126 : Esso Pipeline about to cross Joan's Acre Lane

taken 2 years ago, near to Bramdean, Hampshire, England

Esso Pipeline about to cross Joan's Acre Lane
Esso Pipeline about to cross Joan's Acre Lane
Aerial. The trenching machine stopped where the first red barriers are seen, because of the need to avoid damaging the buried pipe running along the field boundary. The remainder of the trench must have been dug by excavators, which is why it is slightly wider. Closer view Link .
Esso Southampton to London pipeline 2020

In October 2020 Esso Petroleum Company obtained the Southampton to London Pipeline Development Consent Order 2020, permitting them to constuct a new fuel pipeline of diameter 330 mm from Boorley Green to the West London Terminal storage facility in Hounslow. It would carry high-pressure aviation fuel produced at their Fawley refinery to Heathrow airport.

The official web site of the project was LinkExternal link .

The new pipeline would follow the route of an existing one which was coming to the end of its life, but without disrupting it.

Works first became visible in Hampshire in 2022 when lots of little rectangular fenced pens were created, in pairs, on either side of certain roads. The purpose of these pens was to enclose land needed to operate machines to take the pipeline beneath these roads. Two methods were mainly used: pipe pushing and auger boring depending, it seems, upon the nature of the ground. Pipe pushing could not be used in hard ground like flinty chalk.

Earlier, in 2020, short surface scrapes could be seen on Google Earth, running diagonally across the line of the pipe and making a zig zag form. These were preliminary archaeological surveys.


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Geographical Context: Energy infrastructure Lowlands Farm, Fishery, Market Gardening Primary Subject: Works
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SU6126, 46 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Peter Facey   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 24 July, 2022   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 25 July, 2022
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 6144 2672 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:2.1938N 1:7.5067W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 61464 26772
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South-southwest (about 202 degrees)
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