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The Grangemouth refinery and petrochemicals facility is the largest INEOS’ production
centre. It is a deeply integrated site exploiting synergies between the refinery
and the petrochemicals plants. Located 40 kilometres west of Edinburgh on a 1700-acre
site, the petrochemicals facility manufactures over 2 million tonnes of Chemicals
products per annum and the Refinery has an annual capacity of 10 million tonnes.
The site is strategically placed to make use of crude oil and natural gas liquids
from the North Sea and transform them into petrol, fuel products and a range of
Olefins and polymer products.
At the heart of the petrochemicals site are two ethylene crackers (G4
& KG), which produce the feed materials used by the other chemicals plants.
The two units have an ethylene production capacity of 1 million tonnes per year
between them. The G4 ethylene cracker can crack
both gas and light distillate feedstocks, whereas the KG (Kinneil Gas) unit is a
gas cracker using mainly ethane and propane as its raw materials. Grangemouth's
ability to crack both liquid and gas feedstocks has significant commercial advantages.
The Grangemouth Refinery processes around 200,000 barrels per day of crude oil,
producing more than 9 million litres of clean fuels every day. The refinery’s oil
feedstock is mainly supplied by the neighbouring BP-operated Kinneil oil and gas
processing plant, with an increasing proportion imported to the site via pipeline from the Finnart Ocean Terminal located
90 kilometres west of Grangemouth.
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