MOD set to launch survey of disused oil pipelines in Cornwall

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is launching a survey of redundant underground pipelines around a military fuel depot in Cornwall. Ongoing work to check land quality around the Thanckes Oil Fuel Depot, in Torpoint, has identified oil pipeline infrastructure dating from the 1920s, 1940s, and 1970s which are no longer used. The redundant pipelines used to link the Depot to nearby Looking Glass Point and HMS Raleigh. Experts from the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) are launching the work to update sparse historical records. The Initial Survey work will allow the MOD to