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Oil Care Campaign prepares to celebrate 20 years
...safe disposal and management of oil. A network of oil banks which accept used engine oil for recycling has been established in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Organisers of...
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Changes to oil regulations in Scotland
Are you compliant with the new changes made to Scotland’s oil regulations? The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has contacted Fuel Oil News for assistance in drawing attention to the...
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Kerosene – community buying
...of our residents were living in fuel poverty and couldn’t afford the cost of their oil upfront, so we decided to set up a contract with an oil distributor to...
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Risk reduction for domestic customers
...continue buying their kerosene through Oil Price Protect,” said Chris. “Prior to Oil Price Protect, like most other distributors, we did offer different ways to pay including direct debit. Customers...
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ECO3 – oil is included!
...ECO is to provide affordable warmth and help address fuel poverty, it would have been completely contradictory to exclude the repair or replacement of broken oil appliances when oil heating...
Interview
Morrow Fuels – goes the extra mile
...manufacturing steel oil tanks for the domestic heating market. He saw his natural progression as moving more into the oil market, and bought his first distribution tanker in 1988. As...
News
EOGB announces support for OFTEC strategy
...out extensive testing on HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil), a renewable fuel produced from used cooking oils and vegetable fats as well as from non-food grade vegetable oil fractions. If testing...
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MP visits first ever fossil-free HVO village, converted in industry trials
...alternative to oil. Thousands of our customers across Cornwall and the South West will have to change their oil-fired heating systems in the not-too-distant future, and that’s why we’re doing...
Interview
BoilerJuice: revolutionising operations
BoilerJuice is one of the leading heating oil marketplace websites in the UK. Established in 2004, the company delivers millions of litres of heating oil to thousands of customers every...
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Unprecedented demand creates temporary oil shortage in Ireland
The recent extreme weather has caused a massive surge in demand for home heating oil in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, creating temporary shortages with distributors forced...
Opinion
Suggested $100 oil unlikely given abundance of OPEC capacity
...— combined with a potential drop in supply due to oil companies’ underinvestment — are pushing up some forecasts and prompting calls for an oil supercycle. A significant shortage of...
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Future fuel distributor sponsors conference
...environmental services company Crown Oil. A family-run business with headquarters located in Bury, Greater Manchester, Crown Oil started in 1928 when Harry Greensmith began selling lamp oil door to door...
Interview
In conversation with Bedford Fuels Ltd
...Oil Company, until it was sold to Oil NRG Ltd what have you been doing in the interim and why are you keen to come back to the sector now?...
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BSI publishes revised fuel oils standard to avoid safety and performance issues
...provides detailed, application-specific, fuel oil specifications to reflect the need for changes in end users’ equipment, legislation, market use and the application specific use of fuel oils and fuel oil...
Interview
Sustainable aviation fuel: routes to feedstocks that can fill the production gap
...not like crude oil, with millions of barrels a day readily available for extraction, meaning that multiple pathways will be required to achieve this level of production. The current feedstocks,...
Insight
Energy transition: Could a multidisciplinary approach be the key?
The UK Government North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) intends to introduce a new climate compatibility checkpoint before each future oil and gas licensing round to ensure licences awarded are aligned...
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Good times for public storage
Public storage is now fulfilling a number of key roles in the downstream supply chain In addition to both supplementing and complementing established oil company facilities, public storage contributes to...
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Essar supports young carers
...at Stanlow,” commented Mr. S Thangapandian, CEO Essar Oil UK. “Cheshire Young Carers are based close to the refinery in Ellesmere Port, and offer an excellent service to young carers...