Black smoke, steam and flame rising from the flare stack at the Shell Exxon Mobil petrochemical complex at Mossmorran, Fife, UK.

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Natural gas from the North Sea fields comes ashore by the FLAGS pipeline to a terminal operated by Shell at St. Fergus in Aberdeenshire. Here the methane is separated from the rest of the gas product. The methane is then sent to a neighbouring national grid plant, leaving the remaining natural gas fluid to be piped south to the Mossmorran site in Fife for proccessing. The Mossmorran NGL (Natual gas Liquids) fractional plant is part of the North Sea Brent oil and gas field system. Mossmoran also processes gas from the recently installed Goldeneye platform. The flare from the Mossmorran site is clearly visible, day and night, from any elevated point around fife and in the city of Edinburgh.

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Size: 3430px × 5145px
Location: Mossmorran, Near Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Andrew Short / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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