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Opinion

BEIS backs oil resilience bill with limits

...prejudicing UK fuel supply resilience The report recommends that the Government’s intentions for the bill should be clearly explained on its face. The report also argues that despite the Government’s...
The number one concern in the fuel distribution sector is confidence in supply security. With recent global events highlighting the impact of supply shortages we take a fresh look at this perennial industry topic.

Insight

Security of oil supply in the fuel distribution sector

...Gertz, was commissioned by the Government to conduct a review into the supply capability of indigenous UK refineries in the face of concerns around rising import dependency for middle distillates...

Insight

The case for a UK CSO agency

...and would have the potential to manage the entirety of the obligation. This option has no cost to the exchequer. Government top slice – a middle ground between Government Strategic...

Opinion

Fuel industry responds to Transport Decarbonisation Plan

Commenting on the new Transport Decarbonisation Plan (TDP), Kevin Bell, transport and infrastructure partner at law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, comments: “The Government’s ground breaking and world first ‘greenprint’ launched...

Insight

No easy decisions at Whitegate

...owners, BP, Esso, Shell and Texaco, processing resumed in the early 80s when acquired by the Government. In 2001, it was sold to the US Tosco Corporation, which was then...
Elizabeth de Jong, CEO of UKPIA, considers hydrogen and CCUS as part of the energy transition.

Opinion

Hydrogen and CCUS: a sector placed to deliver

...if UK government grasps the nettle and quickly sets the right incentives for investment. If not, the downstream sector could face an uncertain future, with the prospect of carbon leakage...

Opinion

Time to change the oil?

...European governments (and other governments around the world) where claimants are seeking declarations that they must improve their climate change efforts, and as recently as 4 March 2021 the EU’s...

Opinion

Industry response to Government’s Energy White Paper

With Government acknowledging the positive contribution that the industry can make in the transition to net zero in its recently published Energy White Paper, UKPIA and OGUK have welcomed the...

News

Vivergo Fuels announces closure plans

...consequence of delaying the introduction of E10. “Introducing E10 should be a government priority,” said Gaynor Hartnell, REA’s head of renewable fuels. “Vivergo is a part of the government’s Northern...