UK Oil Refineries Face Extinction Without Urgent Policy Shift

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As the UK government on Monday published a call for evidence on the future of the country’s downstream sector, the Fuels Industry UK association called for urgent change in Britain’s policy to protect its four remaining refineries from extinction.     The UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero launched today a call for evidence, aiming to publish a strategy for the downstream oil sector in the autumn of 2026. The UK has been left with just four refineries, after two processing sites closed over the…