page_title: Mossmorran
section_title: Structure
hierarchical_section_title: Mossmorran / Structure
caption_attribution_description: English: Mossmorran Petrochemical Plant
context_page_description: The Mossmorran Natural Gas Liquids plant is part of the northern North Sea Brent oil and gas field system and is located on the outskirts of Cowdenbeath, Scotland. The Mossmorran facilities comprise two plants: the Fife NGL Plant operated by Shell and the Fife Ethylene Plant operated by ExxonMobil. An associated sea-going tanker loading facility is located at Braefoot Bay, 4 miles to the south.
context_section_description: The Fife NGL plant is 3 km south-east of Cowdenbeath and covers an area of about 250 acres (100 ha). The plant comprises three parallel fractionation trains on the east side of the site. The ethylene plant is on the west side of the site and includes seven reaction furnaces with their associated chimneys, plus its own fractionation columns. The Mossmorran site overall includes about 11 product storage tanks. 
  The flare from the Mossmorran site is visible, day and night, from any high point in Edinburgh when significant flaring is taking place. The plants operate the following flaring equipment: 
  three 80-metre-high (260 ft) flares at Shell FNGL;
  one 100-metre-high (330 ft) flare at ExxonMobil FEP;
  two ground flares which are operated by Shell FNGL but used by both sites as required.
  The site is accessed east of the A909, off the south of the A92.
  The Braefoot Bay site is 7 km south on the Firth of Forth. It includes six storage tanks and marine loading jetties.
caption: Gas flare in October 2012
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