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From dairy and arable farms near Market Drayton to factory units in Telford and quarries outside Ludlow, Britteco removes, replaces and cleans oil and fuel tanks across Shropshire. Our OFTEC registered engineers are based in Banbury and bring everything needed to empty, cut out or install a tank.
A wide, thinly settled county means a lot of homes and businesses sit beyond the gas main. Census 2021 put oil-only heating at 15.0% of households in the Shropshire council area, about five times the West Midlands rate. Farmhouses, holiday cottages, garden centres, schools and churches in the hills south of Shrewsbury often depend on kerosene tanks that were fitted decades ago and now weep at the seams or sit on cracked bases.
The north Shropshire plain is mostly arable land, with dairy processing at Market Drayton and Minsterley and poultry sheds spread across the county. Each farm tends to keep gas oil for tractors and loaders as well as heating oil. Harper Adams University at Edgmond trains many of the people who run these farms, and the fuel kit they inherit varies widely in age.
Telford is the industrial end of the county, with estates such as Hortonwood and Hadley and the large MoD depot at Donnington. Generators, sprinkler pumps and fleet diesel tanks there need regular cleaning. South of Ludlow, Clee Hill quarry still blasts and crushes dolerite, while Bayston Hill near Shrewsbury produces sandstone aggregate. The county is also home to two RAF training stations, Shawbury and Cosford.
Each visit follows the same four stages, set up to suit a farmyard, a factory or a hillside quarry.
Listed in the order Shropshire customers most often need them.
Run out of heating oil or diesel in Shropshire?
24/7 emergency heating oil, kerosene and diesel delivery from 100 litres, including nights, weekends and bank holidays.
Shropshire is covered by the Environment Agency’s West Midlands area, and the River Severn shapes much of its risk. Frankwell in Shrewsbury flooded three times in six weeks in autumn 2000, and the town was hit again during Storm Dennis in 2020, in February 2022 and by Storm Henk in January 2024. In March 2022 the river rose to within about 10 cm of the top of the temporary barriers at Ironbridge. A tank on low ground near the river needs secure fixing and vents and fill points above flood level.
Below north Shropshire lies Permo-Triassic sandstone that holds a great deal of groundwater. The Environment Agency pumps from it through the Shropshire Groundwater Scheme, the largest scheme of its kind in the UK, to top up the Severn in dry spells. Oil that soaks into the ground there can reach water supplies, so leaking tanks are a real concern.
Businesses holding more than 201 litres of oil must meet the Control of Pollution (Oil Storage) (England) Regulations 2001, including secondary containment of at least 110%. GPP2 guidance covers siting away from drains and watercourses. After every visit we leave the paperwork: waste transfer or consignment notes and a certificate of disposal or degassing.
We take jobs across the whole county, including these towns.
Yes. We work around Ludlow, Church Stretton, Bridgnorth and the villages in the hills. The engineers travel from our Banbury base, so we book a date with you rather than sending someone from a local depot.
Yes. A buried tank is pumped out first, then cleaned and gas-freed. If it can be dug out safely we lift and cut it; if it sits under a yard or building we fill it with foam or concrete and issue a certificate.
Condensation and rain getting past worn lids or vents put water in the tank. Diesel bug grows where water meets fuel and turns into a dark sludge that blocks tractor and pump filters. Cleaning the tank and fixing the entry point stops it coming back.
Make sure it is bunded, anchored to a firm base and has vents above the highest likely water level. After a flood, have the tank and bund inspected before the next delivery. We can carry out that check and report on what needs changing.
We do, alongside our commercial work. See our guide to domestic kerosene tank replacement and removal for what a typical home job involves.
These neighbouring areas are covered by the same team.
Send a few photos and tell us what the tank holds. We will reply with a plan, a price and a date to suit your farm, works or premises.
