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Lindsey Oil Refinery
Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery is an oil refinery in North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire, England owned and operated by the Prax Group. It lies to the north of the Humber Refinery, owned by rival oil company Phillips 66, and the railway line to Immingham Docks. Immingham Power Station, owned by VPI Immingham, provides the electricity and heat for the fractionation processes.
The company owning the refinery filed for insolvency on 29 June 2025, prompting the UK government to provide funding for special support and insolvency practitioners to maintain the refinery whilst new buyers are sought.
The site was announced in Belgium on 17 February 1965. East Midlands Gas Board had built a £6.5 million site in 1965, in conjunction with Total. The Prince of Wales visited this site on Friday 19 June 1968, later visiting nearby gas field sites in the North Sea.
In the early 1970s the CEGB had planned a 4,000 MW oil power station nearby, and another oil power station at Insworke in Cornwall. Both would be cancelled in March 1975.
Construction began in November 1965, by Lummus Company. The refinery would process 65,000 barrels per day, which was 3.5 million tons per year. It was planned to open in 1967. Storage tanks were built by William Neill of Merseyside.
On Thursday 10 August 1967, around 4 pm, a 49 year old construction worker, for Sir Robert McAlpine, was killed, after falling 15 feet on a scaffold. There were 2,000 construction workers. Qualified first aid staff were not sufficient. The worker died in the ambulance.
There was an explosion in a boiler house at 10.20 am on Monday 27 November 1967, injured four construction workers. 21 year old Peter Adams, of 65 Macaulay Street in Grimsby, died in an ambulance when being transferred from Scartho Road Hospital to Sheffield.
By the end of 1968, UK refining capacity would be 96 million tons, an increase of 18 8million tons in 1968. The refinery cost £30m. The neighbouring refinery also cost £30 milliom.
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Lindsey Oil Refinery
Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery is an oil refinery in North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire, England owned and operated by the Prax Group. It lies to the north of the Humber Refinery, owned by rival oil company Phillips 66, and the railway line to Immingham Docks. Immingham Power Station, owned by VPI Immingham, provides the electricity and heat for the fractionation processes.
The company owning the refinery filed for insolvency on 29 June 2025, prompting the UK government to provide funding for special support and insolvency practitioners to maintain the refinery whilst new buyers are sought.
The site was announced in Belgium on 17 February 1965. East Midlands Gas Board had built a £6.5 million site in 1965, in conjunction with Total. The Prince of Wales visited this site on Friday 19 June 1968, later visiting nearby gas field sites in the North Sea.
In the early 1970s the CEGB had planned a 4,000 MW oil power station nearby, and another oil power station at Insworke in Cornwall. Both would be cancelled in March 1975.
Construction began in November 1965, by Lummus Company. The refinery would process 65,000 barrels per day, which was 3.5 million tons per year. It was planned to open in 1967. Storage tanks were built by William Neill of Merseyside.
On Thursday 10 August 1967, around 4 pm, a 49 year old construction worker, for Sir Robert McAlpine, was killed, after falling 15 feet on a scaffold. There were 2,000 construction workers. Qualified first aid staff were not sufficient. The worker died in the ambulance.
There was an explosion in a boiler house at 10.20 am on Monday 27 November 1967, injured four construction workers. 21 year old Peter Adams, of 65 Macaulay Street in Grimsby, died in an ambulance when being transferred from Scartho Road Hospital to Sheffield.
By the end of 1968, UK refining capacity would be 96 million tons, an increase of 18 8million tons in 1968. The refinery cost £30m. The neighbouring refinery also cost £30 milliom.