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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...
Graph of Q2 2025 oil prices

Analysis

What price oil? Q2 2025 in review

...jet fuel production capacity at its Castellon refinery in Spain, amid weak market growth. On 22nd April, the UK Trade Remedies Authority recommend continuing current anti-dumping duties on Argentinian biodiesel...

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 –...
Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery

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Lindsey oil refinery owner Prax Group enters insolvency

Owner of Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire, Prax group, has entered insolvency proceedings, putting hundreds of jobs at risk, according to Sky News report this morning. Parent company of Prax...

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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...
Phillips 66 supports SSAFA with charity donation

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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...

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...

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...