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Will refinery restructure lead to a sale?

  A restructure at the Total Lindsey oil refinery (LOR) is set to take effect from spring 2013. Total LOR, which has seen more than £600m of investment in the...

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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,...

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Biorefinery set for take-off at Stanlow

...Essar Oil (UK) Limited (Essar), Fulcrum BioEnergy Limited (Fulcrum) and Essar’s subsidiary company Stanlow Terminals Limited. This innovative bio-refinery will convert several hundred thousand tonnes of pre-processed waste, which would...

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The UK’s first purpose built oil re-refinery

Hydrodec – fully engaged in the planning, permitting and financing process for its oil re-refinery The Hydrodec Group has announced plans to develop a facility to re-refine used lubricant oils...
A look at the UK refinery network past, present and future

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The UK’s refineries: past, present and future

...Total sold the refinery, along with associated distribution assets, to the Prax Group. The main channels of product distribution to the UK market are as follows: Road, from the refinery...
A fire that broke out within a unit at Fawley refinery was quickly brought under control with a spokesperson describing it as ‘an isolated fire’ that was ‘quickly and safely contained and reassuring the public not to be alarmed by the use of flares.

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Fire at Fawley refinery swiftly brought under control

A fire that broke out within a unit at Fawley refinery, near Hampshire, around midday today, June 6, was quickly brought under control with a spokesperson describing it as ‘an...

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Key Jet site near refinery is transformed

...Refinery in South Killingholme, North Lincolnshire. JET’s biggest site transformation to date, the £3M project has resulted in a world-class site with state-of-the-art facilities meeting the needs of both HGV...

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Q3 2012 – oil production and refinery demand

...oils at refineries fell by 9.2% when compared to the previous year. The closure of the Coryton refinery was a contributory factor, having previously accounted for around 10% of the...

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UK refining – hunting for answers

...A large refinery reputedly contributes £60 million to the local economy.  “Closed in 2009, Petroplus’ Teesside refinery was an ex-ICI plant, very simple in refinery complexity terms but closely integrated...