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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...
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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)...
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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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In Profile – Andy Ruffell-Ward, Harvest Energy Ltd
...note? Being involved in Prax’s acquisition of Lindsey Oil Refinery and the early days post-acquisition, all whilst working remotely during COVID. Tell us your greatest fear. I don’t tend to...
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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...