Place North West | Stanlow owner lands £7.2m grant
Neil Tague A project that forms part of Essar Oil UK’s plans to decarbonise the Ellesmere Port refinery site has secured backing from the Government’s Industrial Energy Transformation Fund. The funding has been made available through the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and will be invested in a project to install a new furnace in the crude distillation unit at Stanlow, able to run on a 100% hydrogen fuel source. Support from BEIS represents a major boost for Essar. The Indian-owned company, which bought the 2,000-acre Stanlow refinery from Shell in 2011, was led in A...