The Teesside Refinery

The Teesside refinery is located on a 40 hectare site on the northern coast of England. The site was built in 1966 and acquired by Petroplus in the year 2000 The refinery is focused on straight run distillation with a name plate capacity of 117,000 barrels per day.

A key strength of our Teesside refinery is our ability to produce low sulfur diesel that already meets the E.U. 2009 mandatory maximum 10ppm sulfur limit for gasoline and diesel. The refinery supplies approx. 17% of all commercial diesel demand in the UK.

Through an agreement with a biodiesel additive producer, the refinery currently supplies the majority of the United Kingdom's biodiesel blend, branded as Bio-plus. Bio-plus is a 95:5% blend of mineral oil diesel with methyl ester derived from renewable sources such as rapeseed, palm oil, soya or used cooking oil.

The refinery has well established outlets to deliver its products to customers. The refinery's middle distillates are sold predominantly in the United Kingdom, by truck and train. Heavy and light distillates, including naphtha, are sold in more-distant industrial regions of the United Kingdom as well as abroad for industrial use, with delivery in each case occurring by barge or pipeline. The Teesside refinery's straight run fuel oil is typically sold f.o.b. at the refinery to various European refineries and chemical companies, with the purchaser bearing transportation and insurance costs. The quality of Ekofisk straight run fuels results in a premium over other low sulfur straight run fuels available in northwest Europe.