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A feeling of insecurity?
...oil, gas and coal exporter to Europe. In the oil industry, EU-Russia cooperation has been growing over recent years with European companies active in Russian exploration and production, while Russian...
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Sustainable low carbon liquid fuels: perspectives and prospects
...turn. Renewable diesel / hydrotreated vegetable oil This product is made by hydrogenation and hydrocracking of vegetable oils and animal fats using hydrogen and catalysts at high temperatures and pressures....
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A look at the shape of the future UK downstream oil sector landscape
We are living through a time that has heralded much change and, before considering the future evolution and shape of the UK downstream oil sector, we will remind ourselves of...
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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...
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Multi-million pound hydrogen furnace for Stanlow refinery arrives in Liverpool
A brand new furnace capable of running on hydrogen has arrived at Liverpool Port. The furnace, which is part of a multi-million pound investment by Essar Oil UK (EOUK), is...
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Phillip 66 advances Humber Zero carbon capture plant with support contract award
Phillips 66 Limited Humber Refinery has awarded Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) a contract to design a pre-treatment process for flue gas as part of plans for a new carbon capture...
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Essar staff offered £30,000 “leaver incentive” package
As reported in July, Essar’s 1000 employees at the Stanlow Oil Refinery are being offered a voluntary severance package, now rumoured to be worth a fixed-sum of £30,000. All employees...
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Products and markets
...range consists of petrol, diesel, aviation fuel, LPG, fuel oil, gas oil and heating oil. With the exception of fuel oil and LPG all products can be transported via the...
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A vertically challenged market
...UK oil market has seen a gradual shift away from domination by the oil majors and mini majors. Their rationalisation and repositioning created a vacuum now filled by importers and...
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Free oil? Not today …
...unlikely to have sold any physical oil at negative prices. The oil industry is already absorbing much of the short-term price shock by putting oil into storage, both on land...
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Greenergy signs strategic JV agreement with Bapco
...of Bahrain’s energy-related activities; primarily refining, distribution of petroleum products and natural gas, sales and export of crude oil and refined products. The company owns a 260,000 barrel-a-day refinery, storage...
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Extinction Rebellion blockades ExxonMobil terminal
Climate campaigners known as ‘Extinction Rebellion’ blocked a terminal entrance near to the largest oil refinery in the UK yesterday in protest at the Fawley expansion plans. Activists dressed as...
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Essar selects Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as technology licensor for carbon capture
Essar Oil UK Limited (EOUK) has completed the selection of a key licensor technology provider and signed a contract for the development of the required basic engineering design package for...
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Energy minister in Coryton discussions
...options for the refinery were discussed along with the work the administrators are doing to secure a sustainable future for the plant. The minister reiterated government’s commitment to help those...
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Essar Oil UK – ‘a significantly better year’
“We can now look ahead with renewed confidence,” said chief executive Volker Schultz Last week the owner and operator of the Stanlow Refinery filed financial results for the year ending...
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Essar to invest £45m in UK’s first hydrogen refinery furnace
...Officer at Essar Oil UK, commented: “We have hugely ambitious plans for Stanlow and are committed to making it the UK’s first low carbon refinery. By affecting a significant and...
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Major investment at Essar
The installation of the giant new regenerator head will give the refinery unit another 25 years of life Essar Oil (UK) recently completed the successful lift of a giant new...
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Grangemouth workforce Unite over government proposals
Workers based at the Grangemouth oil refinery have slated the Scottish and UK governments over their failure to jointly develop proposals which could help protect hundreds of jobs at the...