Town_Gas_South_Plant_at_Ma_Tau_Kok_[ 馬頭角煤氣廠 - 南廠 ]

Top right photo - the entire South Plant on Lot M.L. 102 as in 1949; residential blocks were not yet developed on Lot M.L. 46

 

Middle right photo - the South Plant in 1964, with an extensive coal yard by the sea and the North Plant appeared across the road

 

Lower right photo - 1950s picture showing coal heaping up in the coal yard (seen above the ferry boat)

 

Middle upper photo - Since 1967, Town Gas is no longer coal gas but a mixture of hydrocarbons formed from cracking of petroleum fractions, the oil tank can be seen built close to the sea and a process chimney stack appeared at the far left

 

Middle lower photo - the catalytic 'heavy oil' plant with high chimney stacks. This heavy oil cracking plant worked from 1967 - 1976 when cracking of naphtha had gradually replaced heavy oil as the fuel

 

Lower left photo - a 3-level process plant room was built together with two small tanks by the sea, these were water tanks for fire fighting.

 

Middle left photo - aerial view showing the former coal yard emptied after the Town Gas manufacturing process switched to heavy oil gassification

 

Top left photo - close-up aerial picture showing the chimney stacks, which were just meters away from the residential blocks

 

The South Plant was demolished in mid-1990s. In 2006, it was re- developed to residential highrise tower blocks the 'Grand Waterfront' [ 翔龍灣 ]

 

Close-up photos of the South Plant most appreciated

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