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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...
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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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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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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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Workforce investment essential to Essar’s low carbon future
Following its positive business update at the turn of the year, Essar Oil (UK) has invested heavily in plans to develop the UK’s first low carbon refinery. In addition to...
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Essar invests £360 million in Stanlow carbon capture facility
In line with its ambition to become a leading low carbon refinery by 2030, Essar has announced plans to build a £360 million carbon capture plant at Stanlow starting in...
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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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Essar ‘strong performance’ update supports energy transition
...Transitioning to a low carbon future Essar continues to deliver on its transition strategy with the aim of Stanlow becoming the UK’s first low-carbon refinery: ‘This stronger balance sheet also...
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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...
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Products and markets
The majority of Petroineos’ customers are based in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Northern England. BP, Grangemouth’s former owner, remains its biggest customer Particularly strong in middle distillates, the refinery’s product...
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Coryton assets to be sold to joint venture
...are managing the safe closure of the refinery. The sale follows a five month exercise to explore all the options for the refinery. As stated by the administrators in May,...
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Petroplus administrators reveal scale of Coryton’s financial woes
...the Coryton refinery. The report provides creditors with a detailed description of progress that has been made in the six months since the appointment of the administrators. Trading losses from...
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Sustainable low carbon liquid fuels: perspectives and prospects
...UK, the Phillips 66 Humber refinery started co-processing in 2017, at 50,000mt/ year, subsequently expanded to 150,000 mt/year, with further expansion to 250,000mt/year in 2024. The diagram top right of...
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Robust financial performance
Essar has invested over $850 million since acquiring Stanlow in July 2011 Essar Oil (UK) Limited, which owns and operates the Stanlow Refinery, has reported robust financial results for the...