UK grants development consent for HyNet CO₂ pipeline

Plans for the Hynet Carbon Dioxide Pipeline, stretching 60 kilometers from Cheshire to Flintshire, have been approved, aiming to transport CO2 from industrial sites for storage in depleted gas reservoirs

Essar Oil UK chooses Mitsubishi for carbon capture project

Essar Oil UK has selected Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as the technology licensor for its EET Industrial Carbon Capture facility at Stanlow

New waste-to-jet fuel plant takes off in Stanlow

The new facility is predicted to produce 100 million litres of low carbon SAF every year

Fire breaks out at Stanlow Oil Refinery

The blaze started at a chemical manufacturing building on the site and has not affected refinery operations

Essar to buy Stanlow for £801m

India’s Essar Energy is to pay £801m to buy Shell’s Stanlow oil refinery in the northwest. Stanlow has been up for sale since 2009 and Essar has always been one of the front runners in the bidding race. Shell said it had put the refinery up for sale so it could “concentrate its global manufacturing […]