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Stanlow’s strong performance
...Since acquiring Stanlow in 2011, Essar has successfully reconfigured the refinery to operate as a single train highly optimised site. The refinery has increased the yield of high margin products...
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Grangemouth workforce Unite over government proposals
...complex. Unite survey Unite released details of a survey involving hundreds of refinery workers, including contractors, ahead of the Scottish government ministerial statement on the Grangemouth Refinery, which was published on...
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What is the outlook for UK refining?
Since the closure of BP’s Belfast plant in 1982, the UK refinery network has undergone continuous shrinkage, from 18 facilities with a total distillation capacity of 132 million tonnes (mt)...
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Industry voice – Rupert Turner MD UK Marketing Phillips 66
...support the industry to decarbonise. In the Humber area there are depleted offshore gas fields where, years ago, gas was extracted and piped up to Humberside and elsewhere. Now pipeline...
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Key Jet site near refinery is transformed
Following a complete knock down and re-build and many months of construction, JET Retail UK Limited has re-opened its flagship retail fuel site close to the Phillips 66 Limited Humber...
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Hydrogen and carbon capture pilot launches to test market readiness
...working towards the Fit for Hydrogen (F4H2) and Fit for Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (F4CCUS) standards. The company’s Instrumentation Products Division Europe has joined forces with Zero Carbon Humber...
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Delivering SAF at scale: a sector investing in future production
...the early projects, Phillips 66 Humber Refinery near Immingham is producing thousands of tonnes of SAF that are powering British Airways flights. The SAF is produced from sustainable waste cooking...
Opinion
VAT deal secures Stanlow refinery production
...fuel stations after a panic-driven buying frenzy. Essar Oil UK, which runs the 200,000 barrel-per-day Stanlow refinery, had been in talks with HMRC about extending a January deadline to repay...
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Fuel supply expansion for Scotland refinery
Petroineos has announced a multi-year agreement for sole access to the ASCO UK Aberdeen Inland Terminal that expands the fuel supply footprint of Scotland’s only refinery. The supply of diesel,...
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Downstream Norway: Leading the way in decarbonisation
...MT. Turning attention to the refinery network and oil products demand. Supply & Distribution: There is now only one operating refinery in the country, the Equinor (formerly Statoil) facility at...
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Biorefinery set for take-off at Stanlow
...Essar Oil (UK) Limited (Essar), Fulcrum BioEnergy Limited (Fulcrum) and Essar’s subsidiary company Stanlow Terminals Limited. This innovative bio-refinery will convert several hundred thousand tonnes of pre-processed waste, which would...
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Decarbonising industry – working together is key to accelerating the energy transition
...technologies. A hydrogen pioneer, Uniper views the future use of low carbon fuels, such as hydrogen, as one route to industrial decarbonisation. An example of this is the Humber H2ub®...
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Simon – investing in our infrastructure
...home to Simon’s Immingham East and West terminals, the Humber Estuary has two refineries which together supply over 20% of the UK’s refined product – Total’s Lindsey and Phillips 66...
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Hertel helps Phillips 66 refinery in Humberside
Hertel staff celebrate six years of safety Six years of safe working have been achieved by maintenance and services provider, Hertel, at the Phillips 66 oil refinery in Humberside. The...
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Sector decarbonisation: The future transport energy mix
...role for the ICE. In addition, Repsol is planning to establish a synthetic fuels plant near its Petronor refinery, utilising CO2 captured from refinery activity, which would be synthesized with...
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A look at the shape of the future UK downstream oil sector landscape
...two main airports, Heathrow and Gatwick. The refinery network has diminished in size from 9 facilities to 6. The middle ‘tier’ of the landscape has seen a number of ownership...
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Essar staff offered £30,000 “leaver incentive” package
As reported in July, Essar’s 1000 employees at the Stanlow Oil Refinery are being offered a voluntary severance package, now rumoured to be worth a fixed-sum of £30,000. All employees...
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Workers protest over Coryton sale
Workers at the Coryton oil refinery in Essex gathered with their families at Purfleet on 21 and 22 July, to protest against the closure of the refinery and the subsequent...