Editing Tranmere Oil Terminal (section)

==History==
The terminal was built jointly by [[Royal Dutch Shell|Shell Oil]], then the owner of Stanlow Oil Refinery, and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board at a cost of £6 million.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=9 June 1960|title=£6 m. Oil Terminal Inaugurated (p. 5)|work=The Times}}</ref> It was built to replace the role of the [[Herculaneum Dock]] and the later [[Eastham Oil Terminal]] which had only been inaugurated in 1954, but which did not have sufficient water depth to handle the 65,000 ton vessels that were operating by 1960.<ref name=":0" />

By 2001, the terminal had two converted crude oil tanks which could handle {{convert|30000|t|LT|abbr=on}}.<ref name="Collard2001-50">{{harvnb|Collard|2001|p=50}}</ref> These were used for the storage of [[crude oil]] from the [[Foinaven oilfield]].<ref name="Collard2001-50" />