The Finnart terminal, which takes its name from a nearby country mansion, was built by the US Navy during World War Two, providing a deep water site to bring fuel ashore, out of range of the Luftwaffe.
Oil was transported to Scotland’s oil refinery at Grangemouth via a pipeline.
After the war the Finnart terminal passed to the British Petroleum Oil Company and a more direct pipeline was constructed in the 1950s.
Another pipeline was later built to take finished products in the other direction, to Finnart for export to Northern Ireland.
The import of crude oil reached a peak in the 1970s, before North Sea oil began coming onshore in quantity.
The Finnart site is currently owned by Petroineos, joint venture between Ineos and PetroChina.