Report on the arrival of the first supplies of oil at Shell UK’s Teesport Refinery for the Tyne Tees Television Northern Life news programme, broadcast on 16 September 1976. The tanker Zafra carrying oil from the Norwegian Auk field sails to the River Tees, heading for docks and the Teesport Refinery of Shell Oil. An oil pipeline raised above ground leads to two oil refinery tanks at the Teesport Refinery. This is probably the Norpipe Oil Pipeline. Walkways lead to a loading dock with...

Report on the arrival of the first supplies of oil at Shell UK’s Teesport Refinery for the Tyne Tees Television Northern Life news programme, broadcast on 16 September 1976. The tanker Zafra carrying oil from the Norwegian Auk field sails to the River Tees, heading for docks and the Teesport Refinery of Shell Oil. An oil pipeline raised above ground leads to two oil refinery tanks at the Teesport Refinery. This is probably the Norpipe Oil Pipeline. Walkways lead to a loading dock with cranes on the Tees. General view of oil refinery tanks. A general view of a giant oil platform (?) Travelling shot from a road passing Shell’s Teesport Refinery. The Zafra cargo ship is docked at the Teesport Refinery. There’s a second travelling shot continuing past the Teesport Refinery site. The Tyne Tees TV reporter (piece-to-camera) explains about Teesport becoming one of the three largest ports in Britain and compares traffic volume between Milford haven, London and the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority, which normally handles 25 million tons per year. This is about to rise to around 60 million by the early 1980s, and that means a thousand tankers.