On the flatlands of the Essex shore of the Thames estuary, between Cory’s Mucking landfill site and Petroplus’s Coryton refinery, lies 600 hectares of derelict land. This was once home to Shell’s mighty Shell Haven oil refinery, which was decommissioned in 1999 and demolished. Now the only remnants of the towering crackers and steaming pipework are a beleaguered bitumen plant and a terminal where ships unload kerosene.
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