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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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New refinery manager for ExxonMobil Fawley
...recently Australia and New Zealand, where he was Refinery Manager, and replaces Simon Downing who has retired after more than 35 years with the company, including four as Fawley 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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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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The UK’s refineries: past, present and future
...Total sold the refinery, along with associated distribution assets, to the Prax Group. The main channels of product distribution to the UK market are as follows: Road, from the refinery...
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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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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...
Analysis
What price oil? Q3 2025 in review
...bpd hydrotreater at the UK Fawley refinery which will greatly boost diesel supply, and BP reversed its decision to close the 80-90,000 bpd crude distillation unit at the Gelgenkirchen refinery...
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The Humber refinery – a key indigenous source of supply
...from the government to support the project. The Humber refinery was commissioned in 1969, initially with a processing capacity of 80,000BD, the refinery predominantly ran sweet low sulphur Es Sider...
Further Reading
Analysis
Energy Resilience – Is the UK facing a crisis?
With the Lindsey Oil Refinery entering administration the UK faces real challenges around our ability to maintain national energy resilience. In this article, Global PMI Partners, the post-merger integration specialist,...
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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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Confirmed: Grangemouth, the UK’s oldest refinery, is to close in 2025
...in Grangemouth Refinery over a period of 5 years therefore saving jobs and the future of Scotland’s refinery. I believe the UK Government could have intervened. “As a wife, mother...
Market Report
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...
Interview
How Phillips 66 is driving the industry evolution to future fuels
...including Humber Zero, a carbon capture and storage project and the Gigastack green hydrogen project – as we look to lower the refinery’s greenhouse emissions and progress toward the refinery...
Insight
What price oil? 2025 in review
...strikes on 21st June. Late on 30th June came the shock news that the 105 kb/d Prax Lindsey refinery in Lincolnshire had entered administration. Q3 2025 – Refinery Shock, OPEC...
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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...
Insight
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...