More than 1 billion metric tonnes of crude oil transported
Founded / start of operations
1956 / 1958
Number of employees
Approx. 150
(including partially retired and trainee workers)
Facilities in Wilhelmshaven
170 hectares
Harbour complex
| 1 jetty for tankers of up to | 260,000 tdw with draught of 21 m (also larger vessels on request) |
| 2 jetties for tankers of up to | 130,000 tdw with approximate draught of 15 m |
| Length of landing bridge: | 670 m |
| Length of pier: | 1,207 m |
Wilhelmshaven tank farm
| 26 floating roof tanks with a volume of | 30,000 m³ each 55 m in diameter 13.5 m in height |
| 9 floating roof tanks with a volume of | 100.000 m³ each 98 m in diameter 13.5 m in height |
| Total capicity: | 1.6 million m³ |
Ochtrup tank farm
| 1 floating roof tank with a volume of | 50,000 m³ (managed by NWO) |
Long-range pipeline
| Nord-West Oelleitung: | Wilhelmshaven - Wesseling Supply of four refineries in Lingen, Gelsenkirchen-Scholven, -Horst and Wesseling near Cologne 391 km in length (including branch pipeline) 71 cm in diameter approx. 16.3 million metric tonnes p.a. transport capacity |
| Norddeutsche Oelleitung: | Wilhelmshaven - Hamburg Supply of one refinery in Hamburg 142 km in length, 56 cm in diameter approx. 8 million metric tonnes p.a. transport capacity Managed by NWO |
Connections to storage caverns
| Wilhelmshaven tank farm: | Rüstringen (Wilhelmshaven) und Friedeburg (Wittmund) |
| Ochtrup tank farm: | Epe (Westfalen) |
| Total storage capacity: | approx. 15 million m³ |
Statistics
| Crude oil transported since 1958: | More than 1 billion t from 19,000 tankers |
| Crude oil transport in 2020: | 18.2 million t (2019: 18.5) |
| Number of tankers processed 2020: | 236 (2019: 233) |
| Average load/tanker 2020: | 77,280 t (2019: 79,459) |
| Transferred by NWO / NDO in 2020: | approx. 12.3 million t / approx. 4.1 million t (2019: 13.7 / 4.8) |
| Share of crude oil supplied in Germany 2020: | 22 % (2019: ~21 %) |