The Grangemouth refinery is the UK's oldest, dating back to 1924.
It is being closed down by owner Petroineos – a joint venture between Ineos and PetroChina – with the loss of 400 of the 2,000 jobs which are based at the huge industrial complex.
Scotland Office minister Kirsty McNeill said the UK government was providing more than £200m to protect the future of Grangemouth, saying the circumstances there cannot be compared to the steel industry.
Without emergency action for British Steel, she told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland, there was a risk of the Scunthorpe blast furnaces going out forever.
The Labour minister claimed the previous Conservative UK administration and the Scottish government had "no industrial strategy to speak of".
She added: "In the end, they're having a conversation about Grangemouth today because they're manufacturing a grievance.
"We, by contrast, have taken serious action from the minute we got in (office) in July."
