ETFuels Selects Immingham as the Home of Its Flagship Next-Generation Aviation Fuels Refinery - Project Kings Road Humber

(ET Fuels) Project Kings Road Humber brings advanced manufacturing, innovation and high-skilled jobs to Greater Lincolnshire, helping establish the Humber as the UK's leading hub for advanced fuel production

ETFuels has selected the Port of Immingham as the location for Project Kings Road Humber, a first-of-a-kind advanced fuels refinery that will establish a new manufacturing industry in the Humber and strengthen the UK's position as a leader in next-generation aviation fuels. Previously developed under the working title Project SkyFuel, the project now takes its permanent name from Kings Road Humber within ABP's Immingham complex.

The project represents a significant investment in Greater Lincolnshire and the Humber, and will create up to 1,000 construction jobs and 400 permanent skilled engineering, operations and manufacturing roles while strengthening Britain's energy security and industrial competitiveness.

It will also act as a catalyst for the wider Humber clean energy cluster, helping unlock investment across hydrogen, carbon capture, sustainable fuels, ports and associated infrastructure. Together, these developments are expected to support more than 50,000 jobs by 2040, strengthening the region's economy and increasing median wages by around 25%.

Project Kings Road Humber will convert renewable e-methanol into sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) for both supply into the UK's aviation fuel network and for export into international markets. The facility will benefit from direct access to the Humber's extensive fuel storage, pipeline and distribution infrastructure, providing efficient connections into the UK's aviation fuel supply network. Combined with Immingham's deep-water port facilities and established industrial ecosystem, this creates one of the most attractive locations in Europe for large-scale advanced fuels production.

Project Kings Road Humber combines two major competitive advantages: access to some of the world's lowest-cost renewable e-methanol from ETFuels' Texas production platform and the Humber's unrivalled industrial, logistics and fuel handling infrastructure. By combining globally competitive feedstocks with British engineering, manufacturing and logistics expertise, ETFuels believes the project can establish one of the world's most competitive advanced fuels production hubs.

This model allows Britain to capture the highest-value elements of the supply chain - advanced manufacturing, fuel upgrading, storage, logistics, operations and exports - while leveraging globally competitive feedstocks. The result is new industrial investment, skilled jobs and a stronger, more resilient fuel supply chain for the UK that helps reduce exposure to future fossil fuel price volatility.

Dame Andrea Jenkyns DBE, Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire said:

"Greater Lincolnshire has always been a region that makes things, moves things and powers the nation. Project Kings Road Humber represents exactly the kind of investment we want to attract: innovative, industrial and ambitious. This project has the potential to create high-quality jobs, strengthen our energy sector and place the Humber at the forefront of a new global growth industry. A project named after its home in our community signals that ETFuels intends to be here for the long term. That matters to us. We look forward to working closely with ETFuels and partners to maximise the economic opportunities for our communities."

Andrew Dawes, Regional Director (Humber) of Associated British Ports, said:

“Immingham is already Britain’s largest port by tonnage, key to ABP’s twin missions of Keeping Britain Trading and Enabling the Energy Transition. Project Kings Road Humber is exactly the kind of long‑term, high‑value industrial partnership that brings these priorities together – one that puts our world‑class port infrastructure, deep‑water berths and established fuel‑handling capabilities to work in safeguarding reliable, resilient energy supplies for the UK, while delivering substantial investment and high‑quality jobs. We look forward to working closely with ETFuels, Greater Lincolnshire Combined Authority and the wider Humber industrial community to make this project a reality.”

Lara Naqushbandi, CEO of ETFuels, said:

"Project Kings Road Humber represents a major vote of confidence in the Humber and in Britain's industrial future. The Humber is already one of the UK's most important energy and logistics hubs. We believe it can also become the country's leading hub for next-generation fuels production.

What attracted us to Immingham was the combination of outstanding infrastructure, a highly skilled industrial workforce and direct access to one of the largest fuel distribution networks in the country. Combined with access to some of the world's most competitive renewable fuel feedstocks from our Texas platform, it gives Britain a genuine opportunity to build an advanced fuels industry capable of competing with the best projects anywhere in the world.

This is about much more than a single facility. It’s about creating a new advanced manufacturing capability for Britain, attracting investment into the Humber and establishing a strategic industry that can deliver jobs and growth for decades to come. We named this project after the road it sits on. That's deliberate - we're not building a facility that happens to be in Immingham; we're building something that belongs here."

The project aligns closely with Greater Lincolnshire's ambitions to raise productivity, attract innovation and increase local wages through advanced industrial development.

As global demand for advanced fuels continues to grow, Project Kings Road Humber positions the Humber at the heart of one of the world's fastest-growing industrial sectors, bringing investment, jobs and long-term economic opportunity to the region while strengthening the UK's role in future fuel markets. READ MORE