• Where is the biggest oil refinery in the UK?
  • The Stanlow refinery located in Cheshire is one of the biggest refineries in the UK. The refinery¡¯s output meets approximately 16% of the country¡¯s road transport fuels demand. Owned and operated by Essar Oil (UK), the Stanlow refinery has the capacity to process up to 10 million tonnes (Mt) of crude oil a year.
  • How many oil refineries are there in the UK?
  • There are six major and one minor petroleum refinery in the downstream sector of the UK oil industry. Total, operational refining capacity 1,222,800 barrels per day, around 58 million tonnes per year. Small-scale oil refining began in the United Kingdom in 1914. Refining capacity increased during the inter-war period.
  • When did oil refining start in the UK?
  • Small-scale oil refining began in the United Kingdom in 1914. Refining capacity increased during the inter-war period. By 1938 there were 11 oil refineries in the UK. In 1937/8 total refining oil capacity in the UK was 4.21 million tonnes per year, by 1954 this had increased to 26.64 million tonnes.
  • Where is Grangemouth Refinery located?
  • Grangemouth Refinery is an oil refinery complex located on the Firth of Forth in Grangemouth, Scotland, currently operated by Petroineos. It is the only operating crude oil refinery in Scotland and currently one of the six remaining refineries in the UK.
  • How much oil does Fawley Refinery produce a day?
  • Today the refinery processes 330,000 barrels of crude oil every day, providing 20 per cent of the UK¡¯s total refining capacity. Over 2,000 ships visit Fawley¡¯s modern marine terminal each year, delivering more than 22 million tonnes of crude oil and transporting other products from the site.
  • What happened to crude distillation capacity?
  • Capacity was reduced in 2014 from just over 14 million tonnes per year to 9 million tonnes by closure of one of the crude distillation units as an optimisation measure. A subsequent, major turnaround exercise, in 2018, increased throughput capacity to over 10.2 million tonnes per year.