September 17, 2012 [BBC News] - The plant, which previously supplied 20% of London and the South East's fuel, ceased production in June.
The final wave of staff to be made redundant at the Coryton oil refinery in Essex are working their last shifts on September 14, 2012. Up to 850 workers at the site near Stanford le Hope were served redundancy notices after the site’s owner Petroplus collapsed in January.
A skeleton staff will remain on site to monitor the plant until it is handed over to the new owners. The refinery is to become an import terminal for petrol and diesel operated by Royal Vopak, Greenergy and Shell UK.
Administrator PwC said staff reductions had already been “substantially completed” at the plant.It said 60 Petroplus staff and 10 contractors, including cleaners and security personnel, would remain on site.
