A section of the M53 will be closed from Saturday (August 13) so a huge piece of oil refinery equipment can be transported to its new home.
The enormous metal structure is going to be installed at Essar’s Stanlow oil refinery in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. Once installed, the module will allow Stanlow to start the UK’s first hydrogen furnace, which will enable it to cut its emissions.
The module is five times taller than a double decker bus — and six times wider than road salt spreaders which are seen in winter. In all, 26.5 metres long, 18.5 metres tall, and 14.2 metres wide — meaning the module will straddle both sides of the motorway during the final three miles of its journey, which started back in Thailand.
