Oil refinery, Scotland.
Grangemouth is one of the oldest oil refineries and petrochemicals plants in Europe, commissioned by Scottish Oils in 1924 to process crude oil brought from the Persian Gulf. Located on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Edinburgh, the 1730 acre site accommodates a number of different businesses. Formed as a merger of several shale-oil producers, Scottish Oils was a subsidiary of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which eventually became British Petroleum (BP). The major part of the refinery is now owned and operated by INEOS, on land in-part rented from Forth Ports Plc. INEOS is a privately-held British-based mult-national chemicals company which bought the installation from BP in 2005. Grangemouth is the only refinery in Scotland which produces fuel for vehicles, domestic heating and aviation. The refinery has a capacity exceeding 10 million tonnes per annum, with more than 9 million litres (2 million gallons) of fuel produced daily.
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Location: Grangemouth, Central Scotland.
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