Essar looks to $2/b UK refinery margin boost

摘要

London—India’s Essar Energy said June 25 itcontinues to target a $2/barrel improvement ingross margins from its UK refinery by the endof 2013 helped by ongoing work to trim costsand boost the plant’s underlying profitability.The Stanlow refinery, formerly owned byShell and the second largest in the UK, is cur-rently processing around 220,000 b/d, which isabout 70% of its 296,000 b/d nameplate capac-ity, Essar said in an interim earnings statement.