Insight
No easy decisions at Whitegate
...support the country’s oil needs is Whitegate. Oil refining on the island of Ireland Originally commissioned in 1959, Whitegate has a distillation capacity of 71,000 bpd. One third of output...
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Insight
Stanlow celebrates a century of powering Britain
...construction began on a fully-fledged crude oil refinery. This refinery was completed in 1952. Development under Essar ownership Essar Group acquired Stanlow in 2011. Since then, Essar has nurtured the...
News
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...
Interview
The downstream customer
In the second in our series of customer conversations, Claudia Weeks, Community Content Lead for Fuel Oil News, spoke with more downstream oil users to find out what they really...
News
Essar selects tech partner for Stanlow carbon capture facility
...towards Essar Oil UK’s $1.2 billion investment in decarbonising the refinery by reducing around 2 million tons of CO2 (95%) emissions, making it the world’s first low carbon refinery and...
News
Total UK prosecuted
...at Total’s Lindsey Oil Refinery on 29th June 2010. In an external statement, the company said: Total UK Limited deeply regrets the accident in 2010 and wishes to repeat its...
News
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...
Analysis
Industry reinforces commitment to genuine sustainability as BBC discusses HVO feedstock concerns
...sustainability of HVO, particularly regarding feedstock sources. A recent BBC article highlighted specific issues surrounding the inclusion of waste products from palm oil production—such as palm oil mill effluent (POME)—a...
Sponsored
ESL Fuels Biofuel Market Update – Q2 2025
...product diverted to Europe due to high tariffs on exports to the US. Meanwhile, the price of alternative feedstocks such as rapeseed oil (RSO), which makes up 90% of the...
Insight
The UK fuel industry: latest statistical analysis
...from where refineries source their crude oil feedstocks, to how many EV charge points are now in operation at the UK’s petrol filling stations. With the sector evolving, it is...
Analysis
What price oil? Q1 2025 in review
...1 23 Trump demands OPEC lower oil prices and banks cut interest rates 29 Ukraine attacks 317,000 bpd Lukoil NORSI refinery in Kstovo. February 3 US tariffs delayed 6 ARA...
Insight
Security of oil supply in the fuel distribution sector
...of Russia’s role in the petroleum industry as the world’s second-largest crude oil producer and largest exporter of refined oil products. Closer to home, Russia supplies about 30% of Europe’s...
Insight
Downstream Norway: Leading the way in decarbonisation
...MT. Turning attention to the refinery network and oil products demand. Supply & Distribution: There is now only one operating refinery in the country, the Equinor (formerly Statoil) facility at...
News
EET Fuels appoints Toyo-India for ICC project
EET Fuels, which plans to create the world’s leading low carbon process refinery, has progressed to the front-end engineering design (FEED) stage of its industrial carbon capture (ICC) project. The...
News
Simon – investing in our infrastructure
...since shipping moved from coal to oil. Government sponsored Navy oiling stations around the world provided physical impetus for the change from coal to oil burning ships of the line...
News
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...
News
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...
Knowledge
HVO – The issue of sustainability
...oil. There were issues with first-generation biofuels, in terms of land use and feedstocks, which led to sustained pressure on government to facilitate improved levels of used cooking oil recycling...