Analysis
An industry acquiring
...strategic acquisition of Lindsey Oil Refinery, and its associated logistics assets in the UK, in March this year. This followed an agreement, signed in July 2020, to purchase the refinery...
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Insight
An industry acquiring
...the successful completion of the strategic acquisition of Lindsey Oil Refinery, and its associated logistics assets in the UK, in March this year. This followed an agreement, signed in July...
Market Report
The impact of the Red Sea crisis and why expansion to the north could be catastrophic
...20 years, the Aden refinery was one of BP’s most profitable, taking cheap crude oil from inland Yemen and converting it into heavy fuel oil for shipping. However, in 1977...
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...
Market Report
Prices and predictions: how are we faring?
A little bit later than usual (because of the recent election frenzy), this month’s report will look at how the oil markets have fared since the beginning of the year,...
Interview
In Conversation with The Oil Lady
The Oil Lady is a fuel distribution business based in little Yeldham, Essex. It was founded in 2015, by Sheila Considine. Claudia Weeks, Content Lead for Fuel Oil News, spoke...
News
Essar chooses final tech partner for carbon capture facility
...is another pivotal step towards Essar Oil UK’s $1.2 billion investments in decarbonising the refinery by reducing ~2 million tons of CO2 (95%) emissions, making it the world’s first low...
Opinion
Fears for future of Stanlow oil refinery
Essar-owned Stanlow refinery, located in Ellesmere Port, is reportedly facing financial problems, but the company has said it is fully committed to its operations at the Ellesmere Port oil refinery,...
News
September 14 update
...North Sea oil had just been discovered and the slogan “it’s our oil” began to get traction. Back in October 2013, we looked at the downstream oil industry in Scotland...
News
EET Fuels appoints FEED partner for Stanlow fuel switching project
...of Essar Oil UK, plans to create the world’s leading low carbon process refinery, by switching to hydrogen fuel, and Wood has been appointed to coordinate final designs of the...
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...
Opinion
Grangemouth plans result in calls for urgent government action
Grangemouth’s future in focus as stakeholders demand clarity and commitment The publication of Project Willow – a government-backed roadmap to transform Scotland’s Grangemouth oil refinery into a low-carbon industrial hub...
News
Strengths and weaknesses of Scotland’s Grangemouth refinery
...infrastructure such as pipe tracks, jetties and tank farms at the 90-year old refinery. “We value the refinery. In order to maintain the value we invest every year in the...
News
Contractors appointed to demolish Coryton
...Demolition of the refinery is expected to take approximately two years. For more about the Coryton refinery – see also page 7 in the October 2014 issue of Fuel Oil...
News
Murco confirms sale of Milford Haven refinery: 400 jobs saved
...17 countries around the world. Murphy Oil announced more than three years ago that it intended to sell its UK business, comprising the Murco filling stations and the oil refinery....
Insight
The integrity of the UK oil supply system
...from Grangemouth refinery, supplemented by sea fed public storage terminals at Grangemouth (also fed from the refinery) and on Clydeside. Further north, the market is serviced from sea fed terminals...
News
Go ahead for Valero’s CHP unit
...Valero will provide power for the refinery, as well as supplement the refinery’s steam demand, and is the first project of its kind to receive planning permission as a Development...
Interview
Celebrating 50 golden years of Peak Oil
...Peak Oil Tom Pearson founded Peak Oil as a business from his home address in Dronfield, back in 1972 and explains how it all began: “I started Tom Pearson Oils...