NEW DELHI : Essar Oil (UK) Restricted, which owns and operates the Stanlow refinery in Ellesmere Port, on Tuesday introduced the signing of an settlement with Liverpool John Lennon Airport for the direct provide of jet gas to industrial airways.
The brand new entry settlement will enable Essar to provide gas on to airways on the wingtip. The deal brings Essar’s whole variety of entry agreements to 6 airports throughout the UK, together with Manchester, Birmingham, and London Stansted, and provides to Essar’s portfolio of business service shoppers, with discussions with different potential companions already underway.
Essar, which provides 16% of the UK’s street transport fuels, is among the largest producers of jet gas within the UK and performs an important function within the North West’s aviation business, the corporate stated.
Liverpool John Lennon Airport is among the longest established operational airports within the UK, transporting over 5 million passengers every year.
The settlement will shore up the airport’s home gas provide, lowering reliance on international provide chains and imports, benefitting from Essar’s continued technique to bolster vitality safety within the UK, an organization assertion stated.
Essar can be planning to supply and provide sustainable jet gas from Stanlow to airports throughout the UK from 2026.
“Essar’s Stanlow refinery has manufactured Aviation fuels which have been provided to Liverpool Airport for the reason that Thirties. It, due to this fact, appears solely becoming that, after near a century of collaboration and shared historical past, Essar and Liverpool John Lennon Airport ought to additional strengthen such a key North West regional partnership,” stated Adam Brayne, head of aviation & enterprise growth at Essar Oil (UK).
“The airport has a long-standing relationship with the Stanlow refinery which has been additional strengthened with Essar becoming a member of us in our open entry gas operations. The airport has had a profitable yr in attracting new airways together with Lufthansa and PLAY which has established new routes. We’re delighted this settlement gives extra gas selection for our industrial airline companions and we stay up for growing future alternatives,” stated John Irving, chief govt officer, Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
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