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Brake’s Giant Walk
...slow down in their community. Brake’s Giant Walk involves children taking part in a safe walk from their school gates, anything from 500m to 5000m. The event acts as a...
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Investors welcome Shell net zero emissions plan
...part of Climate Action 100+. Building on commitments of previous years, Shell will be publishing a series of detailed steps to achieve the plans outlined in the oil giant’s Responsible...
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Centrica and Ryze join forces to kickstart UK hydrogen development
Energy giant Centrica and Ryze Hydrogen will jointly build and operate hydrogen production facilities aimed at providing a reliable supply of hydrogen for industry and transportation, it was announced this...
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Major investment at Essar
The installation of the giant new regenerator head will give the refinery unit another 25 years of life Essar Oil (UK) recently completed the successful lift of a giant new...
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The changing world of the oil trader
...Total, etc. These vertically integrated international oil companies (IOCs) have been joined by state owned concerns, or national oil companies ( NOCd )- names such as Aramco, Kuwait Petroleum, IPC,...
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Vintage year of success for Millers Oils
...power increases up to 5.6 percent, and when the nanotechnology oil was tested against a competitor’s oil, Nanodrive recorded 33% lower friction. Application of the technology to road car oils...
Interview
In Conversation with The Oil Lady
The Oil Lady is a fuel distribution business based in little Yeldham, Essex. It was founded in 2015, by Sheila Considine. Claudia Weeks, Content Lead for Fuel Oil News, spoke...
Opinion
North Sea oil industry in crisis?
...Sea being profitable as oil is below $60 per barrel. “It is almost impossible to make money at these oil prices,” says Mr Allan, director of Premier Oil in addition...
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September 14 update
...North Sea oil had just been discovered and the slogan “it’s our oil” began to get traction. Back in October 2013, we looked at the downstream oil industry in Scotland...
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Celebrating 50 golden years of Peak Oil
...Peak Oil Tom Pearson founded Peak Oil as a business from his home address in Dronfield, back in 1972 and explains how it all began: “I started Tom Pearson Oils...
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BP to cut 10,000 jobs as virus hits demand for oil
...oil giant told staff at the start of this week that the company is responding to the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. Chief executive Bernard Looney laid the blame...
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Free oil? Not today …
...unlikely to have sold any physical oil at negative prices. The oil industry is already absorbing much of the short-term price shock by putting oil into storage, both on land...
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Distributor diaries August 23: updates from our distributor community
...Adam! Nolan Oils – regattas and raffles Nolan Oils, the Oxfordshire-based distributor, is proud to be sponsoring two local charities. The Nolan Oils team and friends enjoyed a fabulous day...
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USA turn from fossil fuel ‘more direct, more fierce and quicker’ than expected
...Biden stopped the giant Keystone XL oil pipeline dead in its track by pulling the permit, re-joined the Paris climate accord and ordered the Pentagon to make climate change an...
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The emergence and growth of Puma Energy
...confidence in the company’s track record of success. Trafigura remains Puma’s preferred supply source of oil products for its downstream activities, providing preferential access to international oil markets. Future intent...
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Clever chemistry fuels business
...forward Having set out to develop a ‘robust and flexible business model around low grade waste vegetable oils’, RGM Fuels (see page 6 Fuel Oil News July) is now in...
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The downstream oil market landscape of Ireland in the 2020s
...Oil. In 2018, Irving Oil acquired large independent, Tedcastle Oil Products (TOP), providing it with a distribution terminal in Dublin as well as a substantially expanded market reach. The refinery...
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Value Oils: leader in online fuel distribution
...Oils? “There are many benefits for suppliers selling oil through our website, including: • They are in complete control of the pricing and delivery windows they offer and can easily...