Exploration and Production

ConocoPhillips' Upstream involvement in the UK began in September 1964 when acreage was awarded to the company in the first UK licensing round. In 1968, the Viking gas field was discovered, and first gas was produced in 1972. Since then, the UK portfolio has grown to include additional operated assets, as well as interest in non-operated assets.

Refining

The Humber Refinery is located in North Lincolnshire and has a crude oil processing capacity of 221 million barrels per day. Crude oil processed at the refinery is supplied primarily from the North Sea and includes lower-cost, acidic crudes.

Humber is one of the most complex refineries in ConocoPhillips’ portfolio and one of the most sophisticated in Europe. It is a fully integrated refinery that produces light products and fuel oil.

Humber is the only coking refinery in the United Kingdom and is the world’s largest producer of speciality graphite cokes and the largest anode coke producer in Europe.

 

HEAT AND POWER

Immingham Combined Heat and Power (ICHP) plant is one of the greenest power stations in the world generating 730 megawatts of electricity. The development of ICHP has made a significant contribution to reducing CO2 emissions in the United Kingdom by up to 3 million tonnes a year. The plant is fuelled by natural gas with liquid fuel as backup. It produces electricity and creates steam, which is used by the nearby Humber and Lindsey refineries. 

Marketing

ConocoPhillips has significant marketing operations in Europe. In the UK the business is primarily wholesale, selling fuels to independent fuel distributors and owners of petrol retail sites. The petrol sites supplied, and some of the distributors, are branded Jet and are supported by UK marketing programmes. The fuels are distributed from our Humber refinery directly, or to our customers through a contracted road tanker fleet from other UK distribution points supplied by pipeline or rail.

Other markets served are aviation and marine and LPG. JET supplies some of the United Kingdom's growing secondary airports using owned and shared refuelling tankers and storage, and delivers to airlines through contracted refuelling operations. Marine markets are served using contracted vehicles, as is the LPG business.

Commercial

Europe, Africa and Middle East Commercial buys and sells commodities in markets all over the world. Our commercial employees in the UK are based at the Portman House office in the West End of London, which is the main location for traders in Europe.
We have other commercial offices in Houston, Singapore, and Calgary and Dubai.