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ABB wins major project to relocate refinery

Having ceased production in November 2014, approximately 60% of Milford Haven’s refinery’s process units will be dismantled and rebuilt at an existing facility located outside the UK.  Site relocation is...
Essar chooses final tech partner for carbon capture facility

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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...

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Will refinery restructure lead to a sale?

  A restructure at the Total Lindsey oil refinery (LOR) is set to take effect from spring 2013. Total LOR, which has seen more than £600m of investment in the...
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...

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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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Multimodal logistics training centre

...and full operation in September 2016.  Funded by the Grimsby Institute and the Humber LEP, it will be located in a 5,696 m2 fit for purpose designed facility on Kings...
Kier Starmer debating in parliament

Analysis

What is the direction of travel for the UK energy sector?

...of the first two carbon, capture and storage (CCS) clusters spanning across North Wales, North West England, Teesside and the Humber, initiated during their tenure, is already well underway. They...

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A champagne day for Hull-based Rix

...were more than 70 customers, suppliers and employees of the company. Lord Haskins, chairman of the Humber Local Economic Partnership, responded to John Rix’s speech on behalf of the guests,...
Portland report July

Insight

The UK energy sector: What is the direction of travel?

...The construction of the first two carbon, capture and storage (CCS) clusters spanning across North Wales, North West England, Teesside and the Humber, initiated during their tenure, is already well...

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Fuel theft in the UK

...3,804 South Yorkshire 2,368 South Yorkshire 2,382 Dyfed-Powys 1,683 Hertfordshire 1,705 Wales South 1,207 West Mercia 1,550 Staffordshire 1,197 Avon and Somerset 1,167 Humberside 891   Fuel theft hotspots by...

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Phillips 66 supertanker makes historic voyage

...first-ever VLGC to enter Immingham – the largest vessel to enter the Port. A complex operation made possible by a seamless collaborative effort between London Commercial, Humber caverns and APT/ABP...
Lindsey Oil Refinery at dusk

Analysis

Growth without structure is a risk not a strategy

...oil refinery – the crown jewel In 2021, Prax bought the Lindsey refinery from TotalEnergies for ~$170m. This move tripled their revenue to nearly $10bn but took their debt to...

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Essar Oil UK reports positive progress on financings

Essar Oil UK, the owner of the Stanlow Refinery, reports that it has successfully addressed the required financing to replace the previous receivables facility. The refinery continues to operate as...