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Will refinery restructure lead to a sale?
A restructure at the Total Lindsey oil refinery (LOR) is set to take effect from spring 2013. Total LOR, which has seen more than £600m of investment in the...
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No easy decisions at Whitegate
...acquired by Phillips Petroleum. With the merger of Conoco and Phillips in 2002, Whitegate became a ConocoPhillips refinery. In May 2012 Phillips 66 took over ownership. Refining post 2016? When...
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Harbour Energy’s Viking project to transform Humber into UK’s leading CCS hub
...goals and contribute to emissions reduction targets. Significant contribution to carbon reduction Led by Harbour Energy, with support from bp, Viking CCS is a Humber-based project working to develop the...
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Essar Oil UK reports positive progress on financings
Essar Oil UK, the owner of the Stanlow Refinery, reports that it has successfully addressed the required financing to replace the previous receivables facility. The refinery continues to operate as...
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Multi-million pound hydrogen furnace for Stanlow refinery arrives in Liverpool
...the UK’s first low-carbon refinery. A UK-first, the furnace is unique in that it will run off 100% hydrogen fuel source from 2026. It will run on hydrogen produced as...
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Rix joins business resilience forum
...Humber Business Resilience Forum (HBRF). From next month businesses across the Humberside force area will have the opportunity to sign up for a new way of protecting themselves from cyber...
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UKPIA welcomes support for decarbonisation projects
...plans to store captured carbon from the Teesside and Humber clusters in the Endurance field in the North Sea. Humber – Phillips 66 Ltd. is active in Humber Zero that...
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The downstream oil market landscape of Ireland in the 2020s
...evolved since 2000: There have been two major developments in the landscape since the start of the millennium, which are: In 2001 the government sold Whitegate refinery, operated by the...
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Greenergy signs strategic JV agreement with Bapco
...and refinery gasoline production with Greenergy’s blending, terminal operations and trading expertise to meet Bahrain’s domestic demand for gasoline blend components as well as create opportunities to import and export...
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Irving Oil to acquire Whitegate
Built in 1959 Whitegate is Ireland’s sole refinery, it processes up to 75,000 barrels of crude oil per day, producing transportation and heating fuels. It has a workforce of 160...
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Extinction Rebellion blockades ExxonMobil terminal
Climate campaigners known as ‘Extinction Rebellion’ blocked a terminal entrance near to the largest oil refinery in the UK yesterday in protest at the Fawley expansion plans. Activists dressed as...
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How does the french downstream sector compare to the UK?
...heating oil continues to be a material source of fuel/energy for heating purposes. Rationalisation of the refinery network has been pursued with particular urgency over the past five years with...
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Essar selects Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as technology licensor for carbon capture
...the proposed construction of the EET Industrial Carbon Capture plant at the Stanlow Refinery in November 2022. Participating in the Cluster Sequencing Track One Expansion process, the company plans for...
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Energy minister in Coryton discussions
...options for the refinery were discussed along with the work the administrators are doing to secure a sustainable future for the plant. The minister reiterated government’s commitment to help those...
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The impact of the Red Sea crisis and why expansion to the north could be catastrophic
...fuelling over 7,000 ships per annum (20 ships per day) and to meet this demand, BP opened the 170,000 barrel per day (bpd) Aden refinery in 1954. For the next...
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Essar Oil UK – ‘a significantly better year’
“We can now look ahead with renewed confidence,” said chief executive Volker Schultz Last week the owner and operator of the Stanlow Refinery filed financial results for the year ending...
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Essar to invest £45m in UK’s first hydrogen refinery furnace
...low carbon economy of tomorrow. We would like to thank our community for its ongoing support of our refinery at Stanlow.” Essar’s Stanlow refinery – which supplies 16% of the...
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Major investment at Essar
...refinery unit another 25 years of life. Chief executive officer, Volker Schultz, said: “This is another major investment in the refinery and part of our strategic plan to ensure we...