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Five new renewable biomethane refuelling stations
...Bio-CNG supplied by the company will reduce UK haulage GHG emissions by more than 35,000 tons, with a multiple of this expected for 2020. The John Lewis Partnership already has...
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Opinion
CILT’s 21-point plan to achieve net-zero by 2050
...Routes to Net-Zero 2050: 2020 Year End Summary. The report includes 21 recommendations for action covering all transport modes and activities. At the end of a year of study, debate...
News
Spreading Christmas cheer in Glasgow
...and their customers, and we hope that we can build upon this in 2020,” said Matthew Bellamy, head of company-owned and operated retail at Certas Energy Staff from Certas Energy visited the...
Insight
The UK’s refineries: past, present and future
...and ethylbenzene. Grangemouth: Rationalisation measures, initiated in late 2020, comprised the closure of a distillation unit, reducing overall capacity from around 10.2 million tonnes per year to 7.3 million tonnes,...
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UK refining – hunting for answers
...the specification of marine fuels will have a big impact. Under MARPOL proposals, the 2020 specification will see sulphur levels move closer to that of diesel. The effect on both...
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Keeping standards high through challenging times
Mabanaft, one of the UK’s largest independent fuel importers and wholesalers, has just released the results of its 2020 customer survey. Martin Cook, managing director, says of this year’s survey...
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Oil price at seven-year high amid supply concerns
...move to low sulphur fuels in 2020 is now resulting in higher demand after COVID interruptions in 2020 masked the transition. This means shippers are competing for the same product...
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Craggs Energy and Moorland Fuels businesses sold – to employees
...director at Moorland Fuels said: “Moorland Fuels became part of the Craggs Energy Group in December 2020, since then we have invested in the company significantly and grown considerably. As...
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Re-Gen Robotics triumphs at 2020 Global Tank Storage Awards
Earlier this month Re-Gen Robotics lifted the Safety Technology Award at the 2020 Global Tank Storage Awards, in Rotterdam, for revolutionising safety in the tank terminal industry. “Our vision, to...
Opinion
Highs and lows of the oil price drop
The dramatic fall in oil prices in April 2020 will go down in history, and whilst it was bad news for the industry, it provided welcome financial relief to households...
Opinion
Towards a hydrogen economy: innovating for change
...March 2020, Energy Systems Catapult released the Innovating to Net Zero report which modelled 100s of potential pathways to 2050 – ramping up or down different technologies and behaviour changes...
News
Urban charges and lorry bans – planning ahead
Between early 2019 and the end of 2020, cities across the UK will start levying prohibitively high charges on older HGVs and vans, for air quality reasons. This autumn’s FTA...
Insight
A review of COP 26: the key ‘take-aways’
...2020 levels. If fully implemented, it is assessed that this could curtail warming by circa 0.2C by 2050. Regrettably, China, India and Russia, three of the five biggest emitters, declined...
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The future of oil heating – watch the debate
...government decides to ban oil heating altogether! In 2001, kerosene sales were at 2639 kilotonne (kmt), last year this was down to 1973kmt. The government predicts that by 2020, 500,000...
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Interview
In celebration of Prince Petroleum
Prince Petroleum was recently approved for two prestigious accreditations following a project that began in late 2020. As a result, the Leicestershire-based independent distributor was successfully recognised for excellence in...
News
‘Clear plans for growth’ as BP puts assets up for sale
...relating to the Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010. Reporting ‘clear plans for growth’, BP has ‘a new wave of upstream major project start-ups delivering growth to 2020’ with the ‘capacity...
News
Rawlings Fuels – putting the customer first
...the fuel company emerged, grew and eventually moved to its new dedicated depot just over a year ago in March 2020. A year on from the move, Fuel Oil News...