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OIl refinery in sunset

Analysis

What price oil? Q3 2025 in review

...European refinery disruption. Shell closed its 404,000bpd Pernis refinery in Rotterdam for maintenance, while an unexpected outage occurred at the Essar Oil Stanlow refinery, impacting UK petrol supplies. Further to...

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...

Insight

The integrity of the UK oil supply system

...supplied from Stanlow refinery, supplemented by two pipeline fed terminals in Manchester, a sea fed public storage facility at Eastham and a rail fed terminal near Carlisle. Yorkshire/Humberside is serviced...
Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery

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Prax Lindsey refinery set to close with no buyer found

...Ineos’s Grangemouth closure earlier this year, reducing the UK’s major refinery count from six to just four. Despite reassurances from the Minister that Phillips 66’s nearby Humber refinery and transitioned...

Insight

Refining operations

...later by the adjacent Conoco (now Phillips 66) Humber refinery facility.  Ownership became 100% vested in Total on its acquisition of Petrofina in 1999. Capacity, feedstocks and rationalisation Initial distillation...
Grangemouth march for jobs

Analysis

A just transition for Grangemouth?

...could have invested 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...

Opinion

A reliable and secure supply

...of this year the Prax Group successfully acquired Lindsey Oil Refinery, located five miles from the Humber Estuary in North Killingholme, along with its associated logistic assets.  The acquisition will...

News

Streamlining the UK’s downstream infrastructure

...OF THE UKOP SYSTEM, IS PART OF A RATIONALISATION PROCESS WHICH HAS BEEN ONGOING FOR 40 YEARS Rationalisation has encompassed both refinery and distribution terminal networks with the initial trigger...

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Rix joins business resilience forum

...Humber Business Resilience Forum (HBRF). From next month businesses across the Humberside force area will have the opportunity to sign up for a new way of protecting themselves from cyber...

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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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The Prax Group to purchase Lindsey Oil Refinery

...“We are committed to all Lindsey Oil Refinery employees, who are a key element for the future success of the refinery.” Lindsey Oil Refinery saw a major investment from Total...

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Prax Group agrees purchase of Total Lindsey Oil Refinery

...are a key element for the future success of the refinery.” Lindsey Oil Refinery saw a major investment from Total in 2015, which modernised and streamlined the refinery. “Since selling...