Plans unveiled for £360m carbon capture facility

Essar Oil UK Ltd. has revealed its plans to build a £360m carbon capture facility in its Stanlow refinery, in line with the company's ambition to become a "leading low carbon refinery by 2030". 

Kent plc has been awarded a pre-FEED engineering contract to develop the facility that will take the CO2 emitted from one of Europe's largest full-Residue Fluidised Catalytic Cracking units, located at the Stanlow refinery.  

Deepak Maheshwari, chief executive of Essar Oil UK said: "This new carbon capture plant is the single biggest initiative to decarbonise our processes and a core element to our hugely ambitious decarbonisation strategy. Our ambition is to become a leading low carbon refinery. This is a massive undertaking, but it is a journey we are fully committed to. 

"Not only is it the right environmental thing to do, it will future proof the critical Stanlow refinery for the long term, protecting jobs and industry, while also placing Stanlow at the very centre of the UK's energy transition."

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