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BP tanker drivers strike
...90% of the 42 drivers balloted voted for strike action following the transfer of an aviation contract from BP to DHL. The union estimates that drivers could lose up to...
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Up for a challenge at Morris Lubricants
...and Welshpool Rugby Clubs, Shrewsbury Town Football Club, rally star, Tom Cave, Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship class champion, Lea Wood and British Truck Racing star, Dave Jenkins. A...
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Plans for green hydrogen plant at Port of Felixstowe
...which provides state backing to develop low-carbon hydrogen projects for the next three years. Under the submitted plans, the facility, which will be around the size of a football pitch,...
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Vintage year of success for Millers Oils
...year’s Automechanika show in Frankfurt. The lubricants use microscopic nanoparticles that act like minute ball bearings between opposing metal surfaces, thereby increasing engine performance through reducing friction. Motorsport users reported...
Interview
In profile with Andy McAvoy, Regional Director Scotland for Your NRG
...Rangers Football Club. If you could be any fictional character, who and why? Batman – can’t say enough about the Batman! Share your greatest personal achievement. Seeing my three sons...
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More debate on industry issues
...has changed in the past from coal and paraffin. “I don’t think any of us have crystal balls. When the cut off date for oil is I don’t know, nobody...
Analysis
UK biofuel industry faces existential threat
...and Ensus, have either shuttered operations or signalled likely closures. Ensus took the decision to mothball its Teesside facility, directly attributing this to a “sudden and severe imbalance in the...
Interview
In Profile with Martyn Lyons of TR3 Consulting
...favourite sports team? Newcastle United Football Club. What’s the biggest challenge of our time? Conflict and Climate Change. Cheese or chocolate? Both! Share your greatest personal achievement. My wife and...
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Distributors act swiftly to protect heating oil customers from supply shortages
Following the mild early winter, a sudden arctic blast towards the end of 2022 saw home-heating oil orders ‘go ballistic’ with many distributors in Ireland and the UK mainland implementing...
Interview
Sodbury Fuels: celebrating 10 years in business
...and Gromit Appeal – Children’s Hospital Bristol, Hawkesbury Upton School Charity Run, Chipping Sodbury Lions Club, Yate Town Football Club, Time is Precious, Castle Combe Steam Rally, Jessie May and...
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In Profile with Steve Little of Certas Energy UK
...things would you take to a desert island? My pet dog Buddy A ball of some description Fishing rod. Tell us something about you that people would be very surprised...
Opinion
Good mental health matters
...national charities, construction, renewable gas, and a premier football club. Specialising in improving the psychological health of employees, managers, and senior leaders within all areas of the workforce, Mandy delivered...
Market Report
Elections and energy policy: a powerful combination
...street lighting. No wonder the ruling party was punished at the ballot box. Mexico Next on June’s election timeline was Mexico, where the populist left-winger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, was...
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Clocking up different meters as Emma Allinson runs the Great North Run
...others, started the C25K and at 40 I was finally able to run 5k each week. Now, three years later, I entered the ballot for the Great North Run and...
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Rod Prowse
...of different countries including Australia, Argentina, Benelux, Bosnia, Jordan, Malaysia, Portugal, Russia, South Africa and USA. Rod also served as non-executive director on a number of companies including Delek Petroleum...
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Ex-footballer and army veteran champions Veterans into Logistics
Former professional footballer and ex-army veteran, Tamara Honeywell is now working as an HGV driver for Stobart, thanks to charity, Veterans into Logistics. Tamara played football and cricket professionally for...
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There’s nothing standard about Tommy’s FPL performance
As the run in to the season end gathers pace the January winner of the Fuel Oil News Community Fantasy Football League recently received his prize. Surprising the winner, Tommy...
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A lubricants package that delivers
...existing suppliers. As a small wholesaler/distributor we weren’t taken seriously by many of the other companies that we approached. Euro Oils came across as far more on the ball, and...