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New jobs and a home heat campaign at Topaz
...The Topaz Home Heat campaign The launch of the campaign coincided with a warning from weather experts that Ireland could be set for an Arctic freeze within weeks. “While we...
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Cold calling
With more than 200 million Americans in the icy grip of a polar vortex, FON spoke to US fuel distributors Loud Fuel and Porco Energy to find out how they...
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Suttons Tankers unveils commemorative Platinum Jubilee livery
...a number of upgrades to improve driver comfort such as LED headlamps, adaptive cruise control, a large fridge/freezer, an integrated microwave, comfortable bed, and upgraded seat. Maintaining a proud tradition...
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Prepare for a cold winter
Forecasters have warned that a ‘big freeze’ could begin by early December – and we could be facing one of the coldest winters for more than a decade. Temperatures are...
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Employee feedback delivers £15m fleet investment in driver comfort
...units have been delivered into service, serving customers in the fuels, general chemicals, and waste sectors in the UK. 110 more of the larger tractor units will be put into...
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Alarm bells raised by ‘beast from the east’
...electricity supplies and whether natural gas would run out during the big freeze were, in the main, unfounded. However, the situation could have been very different if the UK were...
Opinion
North Sea oil industry in crisis?
...pay freeze for staff and cut rate for contractors. Apache, one of the North Sea’s biggest producers has also followed suit and will put a 10% reduction on contractor wages...
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New standard publication will ensure sustainability of liquid fuels for immediate home heat decarbonisation
...of the planet’s future they must convert from using fossil fuels to low carbon renewable liquid fuel alternatives. “To hasten this conversion, we’ve produced an environmentally sustainable bio-liquid fuel specification...
Opinion
Energy security and emission reduction: the role of downstream
...systems of energy production and consumption to renewable energy sources such as low carbon fuels. “While it may appear that fuel security and net zero are two requirements that pull...
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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...
Knowledge
HVO – The issue of sustainability
...supplying the fuel that it is committing to when applying for Road Transport Fuel Certificates (RTFCs). Without this, a biofuel would not be a commercially viable option for end users.”...
Interview
Value Oils: leader in online fuel distribution
Donall O’Connor began his time in fuel distribution working for Connors Fuels – a small, family-run, solid fuel business – before moving to the Maxol Group when it acquired the...
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100% increase in demand for low-carbon fuel sees CNG Fuels open tenth biomethane refuelling station
CNG Fuels, Europe’s leading supplier of renewable biomethane for transport, today announces the opening of its tenth low-carbon HGV refuelling station in Castleford, as demand for the fuel takes off,...
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Future fuel ready tanker is Fuel Oil News Tanker of the Year
...new fuel type during 2022; however, this is subject to completion of successful trials and obtaining government approval for use of HVO as a heating fuel. Kettlewell Fuels commissioned COBO...
Interview
Avioxx: innovating processes to deliver price parity for sustainable aviation fuel
Avioxx was a company born from the desire to transform waste hydrocarbons, destined for incineration or landfill, into high grade, sustainable aviation fuel. Claudia Weeks, Community Content Lead for Fuel...
Interview
In Conversation with Chris Bingham of Craggs Energy Group
...6 months after we launched, we were asked by a company called Clovemead Fuel Services if we could partner with them to transfer, and clean, fuel across the UK for...
Interview
Stanlow Terminals: a sustainable energy hub for the future
...correlated fossil fuel requirement. If you take jet fuel for example, the sustainable aviation fuel that Fulcrum will manufacture has to be blended at least 50% with fossil jet fuel...
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Crossing the finishing line
...Fuel Services under Dave Whiskerd and Mike Grayton managed the contract to supply over 25 million litres of fuel and associated products from the site, operating and manning the fuel...