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Total – adaptation plan to secure LOR’s future
“LOR will be a smaller, but a higher converting and more profitable refinery,” says general manager Jacques Beuckelaers The Lindsey Oil Refinery (LOR) will be adapted, along with its logistics...
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Prax Lindsey launches first-of-its kind apprenticeship to support low carbon transition
...testing, all vital for the safe and reliable running of the refinery and industrial sites. Luc Smets, general manager at Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery, commented: “The foundations for transforming Prax...
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What price oil? 2024 In review
...avoid attacks. In turn, this caused delays to product getting to Northwest Europe. February Supply distribution continued into early February. This was exacerbated by German refinery maintenance lowering domestic production....
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Phillips 66 Humber refinery innovation in sustainable aviation fuel receives accolade
...look to progress toward the refinery of the future.” Alongside producing SAF, the refinery is also the only producer of specialty graphite coke in Europe, an essential component used in...
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Humber refinery – a family affair
...to ten years old took part, including four-year old twins Alex and Tyler who became the refinery’s firemen for the day, and five- year old Evan who stars as a refinery...
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Unite challenges first minister on the future of Grangemouth
Unite has called on the first minister, John Swinney, to “show us the plan” over the future of the Petroineos oil refinery based in Grangemouth. In social media comments the first...
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Phillips 66 sees Humber refinery project shortlisted for Phase-2 CCUS
...sharing.” The Humber Zero project is one of the many lower carbon initiatives the Humber Refinery is a part of. The Humber Refinery is the only refinery in Europe to...
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Stanlow refinery moves closer to low carbon future as EET Fuels commissions hydrogen furnace
Essar Energy Transition (EET) Fuels has taken a major step toward its goal of becoming the UK’s first low-carbon refinery. The commissioning of the country’s first hydrogen-ready furnace at its...
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Europe’s most advanced oil re-refinery now operational
Just 18 months after breaking ground, Europe’s most advanced, 100,000 tonnes per annum, used lubricating oil re-refinery, AVISTA Green’s in Kalundborg, Denmark, is operational. The construction of the re-refinery has...
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EET celebrates Stanlow centenary by launching 100 community project grants
The Stanlow refinery in Ellesmere Port is celebrating its centenary in 2024 and, as part of the celebrations, the refinery complex owner, EET Fuels, is offering 100 grants to support...
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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...
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In Conversation with Phillips 66 Limited
...in EVs. “Humber Refinery was also the first UK refinery to make renewable fuel from waste oil and we remain at the forefront of research and development into next-generation, cleaner...
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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...
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P66 agrees UK-first sustainable fuel supply
...feedstocks. The investment is part of a broader energy transition plan to reduce the carbon intensity of its refinery operations and products that support 1,000 Humber Refinery jobs. “This agreement with British Airways aligns with our strategy...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...