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From Times Online
April 25, 2008

Grangemouth: The facts

- 40 kilometeres west of Edinburgh, Grangemouth is Scotland's only refinery and sits on the Firth of Forth.

- It extends for 1,700 ares and has been operating since 1924.

- The refinery processes about 200,000 barrels of crude oil a day.

- It supplies most of Scotland's demand for petrol, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil and fuel oil.

- The plant is directly connected to the Forties oilfield system in the North Sea and has an annual capacity of about 10 million tonnes of crude oil.

- Crude is also imported to the site from around the world via its deep sea terminal on the west coast of Scotland

- The site employs 700 refinery and 600 petrochemicals staff, plus contractors

- The chemical plant produces more than 1.8 million tonnes a year of petrochemical products

- Grangemouth supplies power to the neighbouring Kinneil processing plant, operated by BP, where oil and natural gas from the North Sea are separated

- BP sold Grangemouth to Ineos in 2005

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