UK: Strike could close key Grangemouth oil refinery for a month

Plans to haul fuel by road from locations in England and Wales to Scotland will be put in place today ahead of a two-day strike at Grangemouth, Scotland’s biggest oil refinery.

A strike by 1,200 workers at the refinery looks certain to go ahead on Sunday and Monday after negotiations between union officials and company executives collapsed last night.


Grangemouth has been in the process of shutting down since the weekend ,and the company said that it now had no option but to shut down the refinery completely for safety reasons.

It will take up to a month to bring the refinery back up to full capacity, according to its owners.

Times of London