Oil refineries supply gasoline for cars and trucks -- also petrochemicals, aviation fuels and marine fuels. An Oxford study found the U.K. oil sector has highly skilled workers with much higher productivity than the national average. Wages are 90% above the UK average. How can low wage green jobs replace those high wage fossil fuel jobs?
Cleaning chemicals to fight Covid-19 viruses are often derived from the ‘leftovers’ from the oil refining industry.
The ‘non-natural’ fertilizer industry would be doomed without petrochemicals. Half of all food consumed in the world depends on the application of nitrogen fertilizers. They are produced through the petrochemical processing of natural gas.
UK refineries use oil or gas as their main energy source , and all have CHPs to produce their own electricity -- they supply their excess power into the UK electric grid https://www.bv.com/projects/plant-expansion-provides-additional-capacity-increase-power-uks-national-grid
The previous oil price crash in 2015 already cost a lot of UK jobs. The following charts describe the current UK oil industry:
