Sullom Voe
Britishnoun
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Flt Lt Cruickshank refused medical attention after the attack and flew the aircraft back to its base at Sullom Voe in Shetland.
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025
It negotiated a canny deal for the construction of a giant terminal at Sullom Voe, an inlet on the north of the largest of its 16 inhabited islands, which is known locally as the mainland.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2021
Production at Sullom Voe peaked in the 1980s and Mr Coutts does not anticipate a similar bonanza from renewable energy.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2021
For 30 years, Shetland was paid a bounty for every barrel of oil landed at Sullom Voe, ploughing that cash into an oil fund.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2013
Some 200 houses were built between 1976 and 1980 on north Mainland specifically for Sullom Voe and UK and then Scottish ministers promised - repeatedly say Shetlanders - that they would be reimbursed.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2013
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