Grangemouth Refinery
Oil refinery complex located on the Firth of Forth in Grangemouth, Scotland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Grangemouth Refinery is an oil refinery complex located on the Firth of Forth in Grangemouth, Scotland, currently operated by Petroineos.
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Country | Scotland |
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City | Firth of Forth, Grangemouth |
Coordinates | 56.018°N 3.698°W / 56.018; -3.698 |
Refinery details | |
Operator | Petroineos |
Owner(s) | Ineos PetroChina |
Commissioned | 1924 (1924) |
Area | 700 hectares (1,700 acres) |
Capacity | 140,000 bbl/d (22,000 m3/d) |
No. of employees | 500 (2023) |
Refining units | 10 |
No. of oil tanks | 200+ |
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It is the only operating crude oil refinery in Scotland (following the cessation in 2014 of bitumen refining activities at the Nynas Dundee Refinery),[1] and currently one of the six remaining UK refineries.
It is reputedly the UK's second-oldest, supplying refined products to customers in Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland, as well as occasionally further afield.