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Robust financial performance
Essar has invested over $850 million since acquiring Stanlow in July 2011 Essar Oil (UK) Limited, which owns and operates the Stanlow Refinery, has reported robust financial results for the...
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A vertically challenged market
...infrastructure, enabling product movements from refinery to market place. Common to all these companies was vertical integration – particularly obvious in the UK’s refinery network and inland market presence with...
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Essar and Progressive Energy join forces in low carbon venture
...at Essar’s Stanlow Refinery in Cheshire, for use across the HyNet region. It will provide Essar Oil UK with low carbon hydrogen to decarbonise its own energy demand in addition...
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Slicker Recycling acquires RE:Group
...in a 100,000 tonne per annum base oil re-refinery situated in Denmark. RE:Groups’ managing director Paul Waine, will remain with the business and has joined the board of Greenbottle. Paul...
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Slicker Recycling shortlisted for award
...75 million litres of used lubricating oil every year, is shortlisted in the ‘Circular Economy Success’ category for the successful launch of its £70 million base oil re-refinery in Denmark...
Opinion
Deloitte statement further highlights Stanlow concerns
Concerns surrounding money siphoned out of the Stanlow oil refinery have been raised by Deloitte, after the accounting giant quit as auditor to the parent company of the refinery –...
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Fuel supplies ‘at risk’ as Fawley workers ballot result awaited
Fuel supplies could be affected if workers at ExxonMobil’s Fawley refinery vote for strike action in a ballot that got underway yesterday (Monday 21 February), according to workers’ union Unite....
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Fire at Fawley refinery swiftly brought under control
A fire that broke out within a unit at Fawley refinery, near Hampshire, around midday today, June 6, was quickly brought under control with a spokesperson describing it as ‘an...
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Key Jet site near refinery is transformed
...Refinery in South Killingholme, North Lincolnshire. JET’s biggest site transformation to date, the £3M project has resulted in a world-class site with state-of-the-art facilities meeting the needs of both HGV...
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Phillips 66 supports SSAFA with charity donation
The Grimsby and Cleethorpes Division of Armed Forces charity, SSAFA, received £1,000 from Phillips 66 Humber Refinery after Ken Weller, Operator, B-Shift, White Oils, made the nomination. When asked why...
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Record results for Essar
Major initiatives at Essar’s Stanlow refinery have seen a hydrocarbon margin improvement of +$3/bbl in the last four years, taking its margin to + $5/bbl compared to the North West...
Opinion
Industry support for sustainable aviation fuel mandates
...the SAF mandate is about making SAF a more regular part of the supply chain. SAF at scale The Phillips 66 Humber refinery was the first in the UK to...
Insight
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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Security of oil supply in the fuel distribution sector
...surplus on motor spirit. By and large, this is a consequence of refinery investment decisions in the 1970s and 1980s, which focused on upgrading facilities (such as FCCs) to produce...
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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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Approval granted for construction of Teesworks SAF refinery
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council has approved the plans for Willis Sustainable Fuels (UK) Limited’s Carbonshift PtL SAF refinery project at Teesworks. The approval is a critical step in the...
Interview
In Profile: Luc Smets
Speaking of his family, recent achievements and a love of chocolate, we chat with Luc Smets, general manager at Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery to discover more about the man behind...
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Essar delivers direct to Emirates
...the world’s largest passenger jet. Essar’s Stanlow refinery, which produces 16% of the UK’s road transport fuel demand, manufactures over two billion litres of jet fuel each year and plays...