Grangemouth Refinery
Summary Information Ownership: Ineos Website: http://www.ineosrefining.com/ Location: Grangemouth, East Coast of Scotland, UK Capacity: 10.5 million tons/annum & 210,000 bbl/day Nelson Complexity: Refining Depth: Brief Description Grangemouth is a medium sized, medium complexity refinery with integrated petrochemicals Refining Units Atmospheric Distillation Fluidised Catalytic Cracker Hydro Cracker Catalytic Reformer Diesel Hydrodesulphurisation sulphur recovery unit alkylation unit Specialist Units for Petrochemicals Terminal Capacity Crude Oil: Refined Products: Crude Supply It is directly connected to the North Sea oil fields via the Forties Pipeline System, from which it sources the majority of its crude oil at a significant freight advantage versus its competitors It is also connected to its own deep water terminal at Finnart on the west coast of Scotland via which it imports alternative crudes (North Sea, Russia and Africa etc) Products Produced 22% - Petrol 24% - Diesel 13% - Kerosene & Jet Fuel 08% - Gas Oil 15% - Fuel Oil 12% - LPG / Petrochemical Feedstocks 06% - Fuel Gas / Other Ongoing Projects - Other Information Ineos will potentially close the refinery down History 1924 - Grangemouth refinery production begins 1981 - the commissioning of an alkylation unit 1987 - Explosion and Fire in the Hydrocracker Complex 2000 - FCC closed after fire 2004 - FCC brought back on line after revamp 2005 - BP sold the refinery to Ineos 2011 - Petrochina takes a share in Ineos refining and trading business 2013 - Major strike & Evaluation of the refinery's future Relevant Links Ineos Grangemouth Refinery, UKPIA The Hydrocracker Explosion and Fire at BP Oil, Grangemouth Refinery. 22nd March 1987 Grangemouth, Energy Institute BP Grangemouth To Reinvest In Refinery Unit INEOS completes purchase of BP’s Innovene business for $9bn PetroChina and INEOS announce plans for new trading and refining JV in Europe Grangemouth is currently shut down and will remain shutdown whilst the workforce is consulted about the future
