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New refinery manager for ExxonMobil Fawley

ExxonMobil has appointed Riccardo Cavallo as refinery manager at its Fawley facility in Hampshire. Riccardo brings more than 20 years’ refining experience gained with ExxonMobil in Italy, UK and most...

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Deal could see key hydrogen role for Fawley

A deal to explore potential for a Southampton Hydrogen hub that could lead to large-scale hydrogen production at the Fawley refinery has been agreed by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary Esso. Esso, Macquarie’s...

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Strategic supply from Britain’s largest refinery

...Last year’s Purvin & Gertz report highlighted the key part played by the Fawley oil refinery The pipeline network Fawley to Avonmouth Fawley to West London which also feeds the...

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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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Streamlining the UK’s downstream infrastructure

...pipeline-fed from Fawley refinery. Puma Energy has a rail-fed facility at Bedworth, near Coventry. The east of the region is also served from Total’s rail-fed facility at Colwick, Nottingham while...

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The integrity of the UK oil supply system

...there are not points of potential vulnerability; should there be loss of supply out of the Fawley refinery, the consequences for the South, the UK’s largest inland market region, are...

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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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The UK’s refineries: past, present and future

...the six refineries in the current network (Fawley, Grangemouth and Stanlow) can trace their origins back to the 1920s with the other three facilities (Pembroke, Lindsey and Humber) being commissioned...

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A good infrastructure?

...twoHumberrefineries and Fawley are under their original ownership. Since the last refinery – Murco’s Milford Haven – was commissioned in 1973, refinery numbers have progressively declined – from 18 with...

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Top distributor accolade for WP Group

David Fairchild, managing director of WP Group, with commercial director, Darren Borras, outside the company’s headquarters at Fawley WP Group has been ranked by ExxonMobil, operator of Britain’s largest oil...

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A vertically challenged market

...the UK – Fawley pictured here. Major reassessment of the market since 1980 has led to the three companies closing six of their UK refineries. Since the late 80s, the...

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Disrupting the sector: the new Nigerian super-refinery

...the size of the UK’s largest refinery (Exxon Fawley). Equally important is Dangote’s technical sophistication, with a Nelson (Refinery) complexity classification of 10.5 (out of 14). This puts it above...

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The shipping news

...Group purchases gas oil 10ppm direct from Esso’s Fawley refinery. Melanie explains: “Our fuel supplier, Esso, has taken the decision to produce gas oil with no added bio content by...

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Simon – investing in our infrastructure

...exported to the USA. Like much of the UK’s terminal infrastructure, both terminals were largely developed in the mid-1950s. Texaco and Esso (sea fed from Fawley) had terminals in the...

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Greenergy – liquid problem solving

...Fawley refinery. So what would he say is his greatest achievement to date?  “The achievements are not individual but collective,” he said.  “Winning large contracts and developing new marketing ideas...