It's just branding, much like Shell, Esso, Texaco, Elf etc - Essar own the UK's 2nd biggest refinery at Stanlow in Cheshire.

Use supermarket fuel to get fresh, high throughput fuel.

Apparently Essar are an up & coming refiner - they own a couple of Mega refiniries in India. Other mega refineries are in the Gulf.

In the UK refineries fall into 2 camps

1) Closed - including Teeside, Isle of Grain, Coryton, a a site in South Wales

2)Old sites bumping along with only modest investment - Grangemouth (BP now Ineos+Chinese). Total in Lincolnshire (closed down half crude distillation of late), Fawley (Esso Mega site), Stanlow sold to Essar, South Wales - Valero bought Chevron, Singaporean bought Murco

We now depend for a lot from Rotterdam in the future bringing in refined petrol & diesel from India, Middle East etc

It is about 65 years ago the UK Govt encouraged building refineries rather than be dependent on imports from unstable sources...........& that is the direction we are heading in the near future.

Security of supply, electricity, petrol, diesel, gas seems to be buy the cheapest rather than create a stable supply & UK jobs.... I rest my case.

I agree FB. I cannot see any logic in not securing vital supplies within our own country. Even if it cost a few percent more, the effect on the econmy would be very good. Extra jobs all round and a stable supply line. Just like food and other supplies I am sure with some joined up thinking and some affort we could be as self sufficient as possible with lots of positive benefits. Hold on, isn't that what govenments are for???? I rest my case too.

Cheers Concrete

Securing vital supplies of road fuel not only involves refining it ourselves but extracting it ourselves - North Sea oil is waning and anyway is too fine a quality to make fuel with, so better to export it at a price premium and import cheaper, coa***r oil from abroad.

You could appy the same logic to food, we should grow all our own - and everything else we import from around the world - wouldn't matter then if we left the EU or not!