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Will refinery restructure lead to a sale?
...Total has already tried to find a buyer for its Lindsey oil refinery on previous occasions, Fuel Oil News quizzed an industry insider as to whether being a separate entity...
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Stanlow Refinery: a century of the North West powering Britain
...threat of Nazi invasion. Following the war, and recognising the strategic importance of proximity to customer markets, a fully-fledged crude oil refinery was constructed and completed in 1952. Stanlow’s journey...
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Streamlining the UK’s downstream infrastructure
...being falling market demand following the oil price rise in the aftermath of the first ‘oil shock’ which followed the October 1973 Yom Kippur conflict in the Middle East. Further...
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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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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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Grangemouth march for jobs as workers and local community rally to save nation’s oil refinery
Unite the union today said there is a ‘growing belief’ that an extension in the lifespan of the Petroineos oil refinery in Grangemouth can be secured following the worker-led march and rally...
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Significant expansion of biofuels capacity for Phillips 66
...UK to process used cooking oil. The refinery converts UK & International waste streams to finished bio road fuels. In a significant investment that expands the refinery’s capability to process...
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The downstream oil market landscape of Ireland in the 2020s
...Oil. In 2018, Irving Oil acquired large independent, Tedcastle Oil Products (TOP), providing it with a distribution terminal in Dublin as well as a substantially expanded market reach. The refinery...
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Shell tech deal will see Phillips 66 refinery first to reduce CO2 emissions
The Phillips 66 Humber Refinery in the UK is on track to become the first refinery in the world to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions after agreeing a deal with...
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Ireland’s downstream oil infrastructure
...million tonnes per year of white oil products, supplies just under 30% of the Republic’s oil market requirements, particularly to the province of Munster. The remainder of the Republic’s oil...
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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...
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...
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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...
Interview
Phillips 66: Humber Refinery
...the Humber Refinery speciality coke production is surprising and intriguing – it is something we, at Phillips 66 Limited, are immensely proud (and protective) of. Furthermore, the Humber Refinery produces...
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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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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...
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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A critical role for Stanlow
...in metric tonnes pa Petrol – 3 million Diesel – 3.5 million Jet A-1/kerosene – 2 million LPG/ petrochemical feedstocks – 1.5 million Fuel oil – 1 million The refinery...