Livingbridge, a mid-market private equity business, has invested in BoilerJuice.

“The Northampton bunker site is a logistical godsend for our business”, said Dave Corden, transport manager at Panther Warehousing Following an intensive three-month redevelopment project Certas Energy has reopened its key bunkering facility on the outskirts of Northampton, increasing the number of operational bunker sites to 13.

“Our team is always available to discuss options and we remain keen to grow our retail network,” said SB Prasad,  Essar’s chief commercial officer, retail This month Essar Oil (UK) opened its fourth UK retail site at Sale in Cheshire.

Find an OFTEC registered technician at www.oftec.org.uk/Consumers/FindTechnician In the wake of an oil tank fire which destroyed a bungalow in Belvoir, Belfast last week, OFTEC has again issued safety advice to householders.

It says something about the current oil market that the conflagration between Saudi Arabia and Iran at the beginning of the year, generated little more than a slight upward blip in prices. Ditto the muted market reaction to an apparent hydrogen bomb test by comedy Teletubby leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. As recently as 2013, these kind of events would have sent prices sky-rocketing. But such is the current level of over-supply in the oil markets that prices only momentarily headed up, before continuing their relentless drive downwards. The only clear conclusion can be that – however bad things are in the world – geo-political concerns are very much playing second fiddle to the basic dynamics of supply and demand.

The new Essar brand –  breaking into the UK’s retail market Essar Oil UK entered the UK retail market in November 2015; last month the refiner opened its third site at Middleton in Lancashire.

For full details or to book a place at Transport Manager Northern Ireland call the FTA Member Service Centre on 03717 11 22 22 The FTA’s Transport Manager seminar takes place at Titanic Belfast next week.