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Nordrhein-Westfalen; Münster; Gelsenkirchen, Kreisfreie Stadt
Location of affected unit(s)
Gelsenkirchen
Sector
Mining / Quarrying Mining And Quarrying Extraction Of Crude Petroleum And Natural Gas 06.1 - Extraction Of Crude Petroleum
230 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
6 March 2024
Employment effect (start)
6 March 2024
Foreseen end date
Description
The British oil company BP has announced 230 job cuts at its refinery site in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
The company is planning to reduce production at the site by a third from 2025 onwards. The reason given for this decision is a drop in demand for conventional fuels.
The job cuts are to be carried out in a socially responsible way and without redundancies, i.e. through staff turnover, retirement and severance pay. There is currently no information on when the job cuts will be completed.
BP operates the two plants in Horst and Scholven in Gelsenkirchen as an integrated refinery and petrochemical site with around 2,000 employees and 160 trainees. The last restructuring event of BP in Germany with around 580 job cuts has taken place at the site between 2016 and 2020 BP-2016-DE.
Eurofound (2024), BP, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 200935, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/200935.
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