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A critical role for Stanlow

A key source of supply – the Stanlow refinery – supplies approximately 15% of the Uk’s transport fuel requirements It also has 1.8 million metric tonnes (mt) of ...

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Ireland’s downstream oil infrastructure

The 22nd September 1959 was a red letter day in the annals of Irish refining, with the official inauguration of the country’s only refinery at ...

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Could heating oil prices be frozen?

With energy prices becoming a major point of political debate in 2013, below Dr Craig Lowrey, consultant at UX Energy Services looks back over a year ...

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Backing a certainty

Paul Vian – ambitious plans for Certas Energy In November 1999, I interviewed my very first fuel distributor at Carlton Fuels which had just been listed among ...

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A question of tank lining

Steve King – KingTankTechnic would never line a tank of poor integrity which has failed the Engineering Equipment and Materials Users’ Association (EEMUA) guidelines King Tanktechnic ...

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PDP – open for business

Brian Worrall,DODF chair with Marisa Ferguson,SQA, at the signing of the agreement The scheme opened for driver applications on 1st January 2014 and Brian ...

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Business at Loud Fuel sounds familiar…

Kabraul and Mike Tasha – diversity of markets ensures that Loud Fuel stays busy all year round From putting down small roots in 1974 by making deliveries ...

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A new venture for Nolan Oils

Andy and Mark get the Sodbury Fuels tanker on the road in Chipping Sodbury Oxfordshire-based Nolan Oils has expanded with the addition of Sodbury Fuels, ...

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Laundering, siphoning and looting

As many fuel oil distributors and their customers have struggled in the winter floods, others have taken advantage of the situation. Nolan Oils alerted Fuel ...

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Lessons from a top distributor

Oil plays a very important role in our everyday lives – Certas Energy spreads the word with an educational programme in the areas in which it ...

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New marine fuel storage underway

This Port of Blyth site will soon have three new marine fuel storage tanks Having constructed concrete bases for three new marine fuel storage tanks ...

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Street-Porter backs biogas plant

(l-r) Ian Bainbridge, Janet Street Porter, Adam Warren, Antony Warren, and Jayne Winter, RDPE Area Manager (North East) at the Emerald Biogas AD facility in ...

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Predicting diesel’s winter performance

The Energy Institute (EI) has been working to improve the test methods for predicting winter performance of diesel fuels – especially those containing significant amounts of ...