Lindsey Oil Refinery
Refinery entrance
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 Location of Lindsey Oil Refinery
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| Country | England, United Kingdom |
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| City | North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire |
| Coordinates | 53°38′26″N 0°15′28″W / 53.64063°N 0.25782°WCoordinates: 53°38′26″N 0°15′28″W / 53.64063°N 0.25782°W |
| Refinery details | |
| Owner(s) | Total S.A. |
| Commissioned | May 1968 |
| Capacity | 200,000 bbl/d (32,000 m3/d) |
| No. of employees | 500 |
Lindsey Oil Refinery is an oil refinery in North Killingholme, Lincolnshire, England owned by Total S.A.. It lies to the north of the Humber Refinery, owned by rival oil company Phillips 66, and the railway line to Immingham Docks. Immingham Power Station, owned by VPI Immingham, provides the electricity and heat for the fractionation processes.
The refinery entered service in May 1968 as a joint project between Total and Fina and currently employs a permanent staff of around 500, as well as several hundred contractors on site, rising to up to several thousand during major turnaround and maintenance projects. It is named after the former Lindsey pre-1974 local government area of Lincolnshire. In 1999, Total took full control of the plant, when it bought Fina.
It processes approximately 10,000,000 tons of crude oil per year, or 200,000 barrels per day via two pipelines. This makes Lindsey Britain's third largest oil refinery. It produces around 35 types of product.
Crude oil is imported via two pipelines, connecting the 1,000-metre jetty five miles away at Immingham Dock, to the refinery.
In the 1980s, a fluid catalytic cracker, an alkylation unit, a visbreaker, and an MTBE (Methyl tert-butyl ether) unit (for high octane petrol) were added.
In 2007, a distillate hydrotreater (HDS) was built. A hydrogen production unit (a methane steam reformer for the hydrotreater process) is being built, for completion in 2009. 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. It was built from June 2008 – June 2009 by Jacobs Engineering.
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