Ineos has denied claims from Scotland’s environmental watchdog that it carried out flaring at its oil and gas refinery site in Grangemouth.
It comes a day after the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) rated the Kinneil terminal facility as “poor” for a third year running.
SEPA claimed Ineos was intending to carry out flaring from the site on Thursday evening, which serves the major Forties pipeline system, and said it would send a compliance team to monitor its activity.
However, Ineos has responded saying that operations at the Kinneil site were steady and that there was no flaring.
The energy giant added: “We take our responsibility for safety, health and the environment very seriously and have an improving track record on reducing flaring.
“We will be applying the same approach at Kinneil following the acquisition of FPS in October last year.”
It comes following a SEPA report yesterday which gave a rating of poor for the Kinneil Terminal due to a “significant leak into ground of material containing crude oil and the continued non availability and use of ground flares in breach of the Permit”.
The Kinneil terminal was sold by BP to Ineos along with the Forties Pipeline system in 2017.
Gas flaring is often used at production sites to relieve pressure on equipment.
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