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Greenergy signs strategic JV agreement with Bapco

...and refinery gasoline production with Greenergy’s blending, terminal operations and trading expertise to meet Bahrain’s domestic demand for gasoline blend components as well as create opportunities to import and export...

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Ambitious low carbon investments

The UK Petroleum Industry Association (UKPIA) has welcomed the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) funding towards hydrogen projects at Essar’s Stanlow oil refinery and a renewable hydrogen...

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Irving Oil to acquire Whitegate

Built in 1959 Whitegate is Ireland’s sole refinery, it processes up to 75,000 barrels of crude oil per day, producing transportation and heating fuels.  It has a workforce of 160...

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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...

Insight

How does the french downstream sector compare to the UK?

...heating oil continues to be a material source of fuel/energy for heating purposes. Rationalisation of the refinery network has been pursued with particular urgency over the past five years with...

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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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Major investment at Essar

...refinery unit another 25 years of life. Chief executive officer, Volker Schultz, said: “This is another major investment in the refinery and part of our strategic plan to ensure we...

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Stanlow’s strong performance

...Since acquiring Stanlow in 2011, Essar has successfully reconfigured the refinery to operate as a single train highly optimised site.  The refinery has increased the yield of high margin products...
Grangemouth workforce Unite over government proposals

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Grangemouth workforce Unite over government proposals

...complex. Unite survey Unite released details of a survey involving hundreds of refinery workers, including contractors, ahead of the Scottish government ministerial statement on the Grangemouth Refinery, which was published on...

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What is the outlook for UK refining?

Since the closure of BP’s Belfast plant in 1982, the UK refinery network has undergone continuous shrinkage, from 18 facilities with a total distillation capacity of 132 million tonnes (mt)...

Opinion

VAT deal secures Stanlow refinery production

...fuel stations after a panic-driven buying frenzy. Essar Oil UK, which runs the 200,000 barrel-per-day Stanlow refinery, had been in talks with HMRC about extending a January deadline to repay...

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Fuel supply expansion for Scotland refinery

Petroineos has announced a multi-year agreement for sole access to the ASCO UK Aberdeen Inland Terminal that expands the fuel supply footprint of Scotland’s only refinery. The supply of diesel,...
Hydrogen collaboration for Uniper and Phillips 66

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Hydrogen collaboration for Uniper and Phillips 66

...Refinery from 2029. The hydrogen would be used to replace refinery fuel gas in industrial-scale fired heaters, as part of Phillips 66’s plans to reduce the Humber Refinery’s scope 1...