Essar Energy Transition enjoyed “record sales” in 2025, with the firm’s forecourt arm of 58 branded sites continuing to “scale rapidly”, and over 100 filling stations now signed up to take fuel from the company.
Forecourt Trader’s 2025 Fuel Market Review recorded that Essar previously supplied 51 forecourts, but the demise of Prax saw the firm step in to supply 47 Harvest dealers that used to take fuel from that facility.
Essar’s Stanlow refinery at Ellesmere Port, meanwhile, last year achieved its highest-ever domestic sales, with operational throughput up 8% on 2024, and volumes at their highest level since the facility was bought by the Indian firm from Shell in 2011.
The company attributes its 2025 success to a “robust pan-UK strategy”, and the leveraging of its “extensive supply infrastructure” that allowed it to bring its chain into play following last year’s Prax debacle, and closure of Scotland’s Grangemouth refinery.
The Stanlow refinery received a $100m (£74.3m) investment in 2025 to modernise terminal infrastructure, which included overhauling control-valves, and the recommissioning of a 100,000m³ crude storage tank. The firm also now supplies 10 major airports.
Deepak Maheshwari, chief executive of Essar Energy Transition Fuels said he was “delighted” with his firm’s performance and attributed 2025’s success to ”the hard work and dedication of our entire team”, which “successfully navigated a major turnaround and delivered our best-ever domestic sales figures”.
