Ineos to Shut Unit at Grangemouth Refinery Next Month

(Bloomberg) — Ineos Group Holdings Plc, a closely held chemicals company, will shut a unit that makes gasoline additives at its refinery in Grangemouth, Scotland, for maintenance next month.

The catalytic reformer unit, which also processes naphtha into petrochemical products such as ethylene, will be closed for 24 days in February, according to an official who declined to be identified, citing company policy.


David East, a spokesman for the refinery in central Scotland, declined to comment on the plant’s “day-to-day operations.”

Ineos completed the purchase of the 200,000-barrel-a-day Grangemouth plant from BP Plc in December 2005. At the same time, it bought BP’s refinery in Lavera, France.

Bloomberg