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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)...
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...
As the UK continues to seek the right strategy to deliver a future of low carbon energy we consider Norway, a country leading the way in decarbonisation

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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...

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Workers protest over Coryton sale

Workers at the Coryton oil refinery in Essex gathered with their families at Purfleet on 21 and 22 July, to protest against the closure of the refinery and the subsequent...

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Crude oil supply – Essar enters new arrangement

...maximise efficiency, to substantially improve margins and to ensure that the refinery can thrive in all market conditions.” Essar Energy completed the purchase of Stanlow, the UK’s second largest refinery...

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It’s a cracker for Essar

Moving the load was a complex technical operation – it took six hours to transport the head from Ellesmere Port docks to the refinery four miles away Vital to Stanlow’s...

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Petroineos GasOil and Biofuel Workshop

A workshop hosted by fuel processing giant Petroineos at its Grangemouth refinery to discuss growing concerns that red diesel is causing damage to farm machinery saw a large turnout from...

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Phillips 66 enters UK market

...base and an impressive portfolio of business divisions, including consumer-facing marketing and our world-class Humber Refinery,” continued Pete George. A key part of Phillips 66’s global refinery portfolio, the Humber...

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A year in the wholesale markets

...Esso and the Nisa convenience brand.” Greenergy acquired the former Petroplus refinery on Teesside (now named Greenergy North Tees) in July 2012 and began supplying from the site soon after....

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Important milestone for joint venture

...cleared and the remaining refinery demolition due to completed in 2016, the partners determined that this is right time to proceed with the sale of excess refinery land. www.thamesenterprisepark.co.uk www.greenergy.com...