2022

SU5318 : Launch area for auger boring under Winstershill Road

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

Launch area for auger boring under Winstershill Road
Launch area for auger boring under Winstershill Road
A works compound of the Esso pipeline laying project 2022. Some of the helical augers can be seen beyond the yellow excavator.
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 Roads, Road transport Primary Subject: Works
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SU5318, 31 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Peter Facey   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 21 May, 2022   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 22 May, 2022
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 5357 1806 [10m precision]
WGS84: 50:57.5690N 1:14.3171W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SU 53582 18077
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