Ineos to leave UK10 Sep 2025 08:23
Ineos to leave UKToday 08:21
Manchester United co-owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe's Ineos Energy, has declared they are withdrawing their funding in the UK and shifting their investments to the US.
Ineos Energy, the oil and gas production and trading branch of Ratcliffe's empire, had been pouring money into their oil refinery in Scotland until recently.
However, with the Grangemouth oil refinery shutting its doors in April 2025, Brian Gilvary, the executive chairman of Ineos Energy, has admitted that further investment in the UK is now off the table
Speaking to The Telegraph, Gilvary stated: "We have stopped investing in Britain. Our future investment will not be [in] the UK. There's no question of that.
"The problem is that the UK has become one of the most unstable fiscal regimes in the world from a perspective of natural resources and energy.
"It means we cannot invest with any certainty because we can't be sure what future tax rates will be.", reports the Manchester Evening News. While Ineos Energy are now planning to invest £3bn into the US' oil and gas industry, there is no suggestion that this could cause Ineos' sporting operations to withdraw from United.