CLH Pipeline System the GPSS and also gained from the surplus of income over expenditure that OPA used to generate from running the GPSS. The sale did not include the six coastal Oil Fuel Depots owned by the MoD, which continued to be operated and maintained by the residual OPA. Following its acquisition by CLH, the GPSS was subsequently renamed the CLH Pipeline System (CLH-PS). Since CLH have taken over the ownership of the GPSS a number of the pipelines that make up the system have been closed down. CLH Pipeline System The CLH Pipeline System (CLH-PS), formerly the Government Pipelines and Storage
CLH Pipeline System the WW2 cross-Pennine pipeline was found to be badly corroded and in the 1950s a new pipeline was built from the Stanlow area to the Humber. New storage depots were built on this pipeline and a third new import facility was constructed on the Humber. The first commercial usage of the system was immediately after the war to supply a depot on the River Severn from Avonmouth. In the early 1950s some aviation fuel was pumped from Avonmouth to a depot on the Thames to supply Heathrow airport by road tanker from there. Esso also used the network to pump