Refinery
Grangemouth refinery — voluntary closure
April 2025
Grangemouth, Scotland, United Kingdom
What happened
Petroineos ceased crude oil processing at the 150,000 bbl/d Grangemouth refinery — Scotland's last — in April 2025, saying the aging plant was losing around $500,000 per day and could not compete with larger, more modern refineries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The site is being converted into a fuel import terminal, with the workforce cut from 475 to about 75; a bio-refinery is also under consideration. This was a voluntary commercial closure, not an incident or attack.
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Refinery
- Latitude
- 56.0200°
- Longitude
- -3.7000°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.