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Breach of the Mainline Pipeline – Valero update

Following the breach of Mainline Pipeline on 4th October near Nantycaws, Carmarthenshire, booms remain in place on Nant Pibwr to recover kerosene from the pipeline leak. Valero has continued to...

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Hoyer Petrolog retains Valero refuelling contract

l-r Tommy Vickers, HOYER operations manager Valero Into-plane operation with members of the driving team – Joe Gilmore, Des Byrne, Trevor Blanche, John Stynes, Greg Byrne and Karl Burke –...
Twenty-five Irish sports clubs to benefit from EUR125,000 funding initiative

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Valero announces recipients of Texaco support for sport funding

...and organised by Valero Energy (Ireland) Limited, with the judging process overseen by former Irish rugby international and well-known broadcaster, Donncha O’Callaghan. Of the clubs receiving funding this year, EUR50,000 will...

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Celebrating 40-year Valero anniversary

...Usman first became a tenant in 1980. Left to right: Khalid Mohammed, Director,  Sufyan Mohammed, Director, Salahuddin Mohammed (grandson); and Usman Patel, Owner, Mabco UK Ltd. Andrew Cox, Valero’s director...

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Streamlining the UK’s downstream infrastructure

...Total Butler; Chevron sells UK downstream business to Valero 2012 Petroplus collapses into insolvency; ConocoPhillips splits into separate upstream/downstream entities with UK downstream becoming part of Phillips 66 2015 Murco’s...

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Great savings for Texaco retailers

Texaco retailers have been benefiting from reduced Merchant Service Charges (MSC) after Valero, restructured their agreement with their acquirer. The reduction, which came into effect in January 2015, has been...
The current millennium has witnessed changes in the downstream oil sector in Ireland of a scale and extent that far exceeded anything that occurred in the 50 or so years prior. We consider how in Ireland the process has been characterised by consolidation in the competitive landscape accompanied by rationalisation of logistics arrangements.

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The downstream oil market landscape of Ireland in the 2020s

...half of the country’s oil products requirements are routed through the three storage facilities in Dublin port, with the lion’s share of these being sourced from the Valero, Pembroke refinery....

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Texaco support for sports recipients announced

Names have been announced of the 26 sports clubs chosen to receive funding under the Texaco Support for Sport initiative launched last September by Valero Energy (Ireland) Limited – the...

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Industry goes above and beyond for charity

Sponsors of the Valero UK Benefit for Children Classic have gone above and beyond for charity, donating over £169,000 for children’s charities, even though the event this year did not...

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Second Texaco support for sport initiative

For the second successive year, Valero Energy (Ireland) Limited has confirmed its commitment to host the 2021 Texaco Support for Sport initiative. Open to sports clubs across the 26 counties,...
A look at the UK refinery network past, present and future

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The UK’s refineries: past, present and future

...100% by Valero since 2012, along a 300-mile system to the company’s terminals at Kingsbury and Trafford Park, Manchester. Coaster, where products are shipped to Valero’s three sea-fed terminals in...

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UK refining – hunting for answers

...a different business model.Q: So what do investors like Petrochina, Essar and Valero have to gain in our mature industry?   “A very handy toehold in Europe,” says Chris.  “In...

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Ireland’s downstream oil infrastructure

...requirements are satisfied by imports, 85% of which are supplied from the UK, principally from west coast refineries, with Valero’s Pembroke facility being the largest single source. Norway is the...