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Essar Oil plots £600m sustainable aviation fuel facility at Ellesmere Port oil refinery

Cecilia Keating

Cecilia Keating

16 February 2021 • 4 min read

Essar Oil's refinery in Stanlow already pipes jet fuel to airlines operating in the UK

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Essar Oil's refinery in Stanlow already pipes jet fuel to airlines operating in the UK

Waste-to-fuel plant planned by UK oil refining firm and US sustainable jet fuel company Fulcrum BioEnergy aims to start delivering cleaner jet fuel to airlines in 2025

Plans for a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant are steaming ahead in the North West of England, after Essar Oil signed a deal with Fulcrum BioEnergy to build an innovative facility that would convert...

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