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Fina-Line Pipeline
Fina-Line is the major link between Lindsey Oil Refinery and TOTAL's Buncefield Terminal in Hertfordshire, which is a joint venture with Texaco. Completed in the summer of 1990, it marked the start of a new era for the company's logistics and offers a safe, environmentally-friendly method of distribution.

Fina-Line also connects to another pipeline leading into London Heathrow, the world's busiest airport. At certain peak times, it is Fina-Line alone that enables Heathrow to maintain operations. It stretches over a total of 140 miles, crossing 158 roads, 13 main rivers and 7 railway lines along the way.

Horizontal directional drilling enables Fina-Line to cross rivers while entirely avoiding damage to the riverbeds and banks and interference with the water flow.

Fina-Line is 10inches in diameter, and approximately 235km long, with a pressure of 110bar. It has a capacity of 6million litres per day.

Colnbrook pipeline
The Colnbrook aviation-fuel line runs from the Colnbrook rail terminal to the fuel farm in Heathrow Airport. It is 12" in diameter and approximately 4km long.

The Colnbrook pipeline supplies 1,600,000 litres of aviation fuel to Heathrow each week, and this amount can be increased if other supplies are short.

The Colnbrook pipeline runs through industrial lands and along road verges until it reaches Heathrow Airport, where it then runs in the same trench as the BPA fuel mains.