French oil giant total has said that its will cut 180 jobs at its Lindsey refinery in Lincolnshire and scale back production from the plant after it posted a loss of $5.7bn in the fourth quarter.

The Paris-based company said that it would reduce the workforce at the Lindsey plant to 400 workers, from a staff of around 580, and halve production by about 5m tonnes at the site.

In 2010, a man was killed after a massive explosion at the Lindsey plant in East Lincolnshire and Total was forced to halt crude oil supply to the 221,000 barrel-per-day facility.

Total has joined a growing list of oil and gas companies in the UK cutting back jobs amid a slide in the price of crude. BP and Talisman both recently announced hundreds of job cuts to North Sea operations and Royal Dutch Shell said that it will reduce spending.

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Source: The Telegraph