Petroleum refining in the United Kingdom

[1] There are six major and one minor petroleum refinery in the downstream sector of the UK oil industry.

[2] Total, operational refining capacity 1,222,800 barrels per day, around 58 million tonnes per year.

In 1902, there were four petroleum refineries in London that held a license to import oil in barges along the River Thames,[12] including S. Bowley and Son.

[14] In 1973, with an anticipated increase in consumption and the projected start of oil production from the UK North Sea, the following new refineries were being planned or constructed.

Statistics for petroleum refining in the UK are gathered by the United Kingdom Petroleum Industry Association (UKPIA), on Chancery Lane in London, and the recently formed (July 2016) Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.