It lies to the north of the Humber Refinery, owned by rival oil company Phillips 66, and the railway line to Immingham Docks.

[5] On Thursday 10 August 1967, around 4pm, a 49 year old construction worker, for Sir Robert McAlpine, was killed, after falling 15 feet on a scaffold.

[8][9][10] 21 year old Peter Adams, of 65 Macaulay Street in Grimsby, died in an ambulance when being transferred from Scartho Road Hospital to Sheffield.

[16] It currently employs a permanent staff of around 415, as well as several hundred contractors on site, rising to up to several thousand during major turnaround and maintenance projects.

Producing around 35 types of product, it currently processes circa 113,000 barrels of oil per day after its refining capacity was almost halved during restructuring initiatives by former operators Total.

In March 2021, the refinery was bought by Prax Group from Total S.A.[17] More units were added, to take refining capacity to 7m tons in early 1970, at a cost of £10m.

The new plant will provide ultra-low sulfur diesel and mean different types of crude oil can be processed, that can be made in a conventional catalytic cracker or hydrocracker.

On Tuesday 29 June 2010 an explosion and subsequent fire broke out at the plant, killing Robert Greenacre, a 24-year-old worker, and injuring others.

[27][28][29] Total reported that firefighters had found traces of asbestos in the refinery's crude oil distillation unit three days after the initial explosion.

[30] The refinery's presence causes a considerable amount of traffic to pass through the village of North Killingholme at the time of work hours commencing and ending.

[citation needed] In December 2004, Total were fined £12,500 for allowing 60,000 litres of crude oil to leak into the Humber Estuary.