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The Phillips 66 Interview

...the Whitegate Refinery and the Humber Refinery where Julian Stoll is now refinery manager, a recent appointment reported in last month’s Fuel Oil News   With UK and Irish fuel...

News

Regeneration at Coryton

...to London Gateway and Thames Oilport. Part of the old refinery catalytic cracking unit, the chimney and distillation columns have stood idle since the refinery closed in 2012 following the...

News

Thin cover for winter?

...b/d refinery in Lysekil, Sweden, closed last month for six weeks of scheduled maintenance. Also on the docket for autumn works are Exxon’s 246,000 b/d refinery in Antwerp and unspecified...

Insight

Ireland’s downstream oil infrastructure

The 22nd September 1959 was a red letter day in the annals of Irish refining, with the official inauguration of the country’s only refinery at Whitegate, near Cork city. Jointly...

News

Prax refinery joins decarbonisation project

...and currently made up of the following organisations – Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery, Humber Zero (with partners: Phillips 66 Humber Refinery and Vitol’s VPI Immingham power plant) and EP UK...
Data: the UKIFDA databank

Knowledge

Data: the UKIFDA databank

...the RTFO in 2022, 3.3bn litres of RLFs were supplied into the UK. These fuels include multiple types, using multiple feedstocks from nearly 100 countries. 8% was HVO: Fifty feedstocks...
Looking at the challenge of ensuring that HVO is a genuinely sustainable future fuel

Knowledge

HVO – The issue of sustainability

...centres on the sustainability of their provenance (what feedstocks are used) and there are genuine questions for those who, in doing a ‘right’ thing, wish to avoid unintentionally also doing...

Opinion

Grangemouth plans result in calls for urgent government action

Grangemouth’s future in focus as stakeholders demand clarity and commitment The publication of Project Willow – a government-backed roadmap to transform Scotland’s Grangemouth oil refinery into a low-carbon industrial hub...

Opinion

Prax pledges on jobs and decarbonisation

...23 of those years spent with ExxonMobil. Luc Smets, general manager, Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery As part of corporate strategy for the refinery, the Prax Group has committed to boosting...

News

Contractors appointed to demolish Coryton

Thames Enterprise Park has taken a major step towards the economic development of the site of the former Coryton Refinery with the appointment of contractors to demolish the redundant refinery...

News

Go ahead for Valero’s CHP unit

...Valero will provide power for the refinery, as well as supplement the refinery’s steam demand, and is the first project of its kind to receive planning permission as a Development...
Essar chooses final tech partner for carbon capture facility

News

Essar chooses final tech partner for carbon capture facility

...Clean Technologies is a valuable partner in our plan to reduce our refinery emissions by 95% using the BELCO® scrubbing technology.” Essar’s overall decarbonisation strategy aims to reduce refinery emissions...
Portland Report August

Market Report

Prices and predictions: how are we faring?

...year was around $35 per barrel, but this has now fallen below $20. The crack (or “refining spread”) is how much gross profit a refinery makes, and is based on...

Insight

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...