Insight
Downstream Norway: Leading the way in decarbonisation
...The country relies almost equally on fossil fuels and non-fossil fuels for its sources of energy, as follows: Coal 3% Gas 17% Oil 32% Biofuels and waste 7% Electricity 41%...
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News
A third retail site for Essar
...at Middleton in Lancashire. The first Essar branded site to open was Coalville in Leicestershire followed by Walkden in Manchester in December 2015. Essar has extensive experience in the Indian...
Knowledge
Safeguard the future with effective succession planning
...industry may be daunting, such as: adopting new fuel types e.g., HVO and other future fuels new legislative regimes e.g., red diesel, coal usage adopting new technology e.g., adapting software...
News
Raising awareness – carbon monoxide and fossil fuels
...and just 40% for coal. “It’s very important that householders understand the importance of checking their home heating systems annually,” said OFTEC Ireland manager David Blevings. “An oil boiler should...
Insight
Key challenges and opportunities facing the fuel distributor
...coal deliveries and evolved to being suppliers of petroleum and other energy products, servicing a substantial, diverse portfolio of customers. Further, they have been eager adopters of new technology and...
Insight
Industry impacts of the reset of government net zero policy
...British public engaged with the process. Among the announcements he included: Existing plans to ban the installation of oil and LPG boilers, and new coal heating, in off-grid homes will...
Interview
Holding steady in challenging times
...business which has grown over the last few years,” said Adrian. “We also sell solid fuel in the form of coal and briquettes which has proved to be a good...
News
Welsh distributor goes with the wind
...coal, biomass and wind; a new turbine was recently erected beside the company’s Ammanford depot. The company’s first turbine was erected in December 2014 and now supplies power to 400...
News
Your NRG powers into Scotland with strategic expansion
...Peart, a fourth-generation member of the Peart family who’ve been supplying fuel for over a century since their humble beginnings delivering coal from horse and cart in north east England....
Insight
COP26 FON Blog 5: Downstream challenges
...has made progress in areas of policy that don’t directly relate to downstream. 104 countries committed to reducing methane. 40 countries to phase out coal, and 110 countries to stopping...
Insight
The energy sector: COP27 takeaways and future challenges and prospects
...according to the IEA, it will have the effect of accelerating the peak in global fossil fuel consumption, with gas demand now projected to join oil and coal in reaching...
News
More opportunities for fossil fuel producers
...intensity that cannot come from electricity alone. “These are areas that are not, on the whole, locked into a coal-driven system. There is the potential for them to shift more...
Interview
Northern Energy: fuelling communities for 90 years
...grew. “My father soon realised the waste of bringing back empty trucks,” Muriel continues, “so he began to bring back coal from the city to sell to the many local...
Analysis
Fuelling progress: future fuels for transport decarbonisation
...by 2030 – almost the same amount as 33 coal-fired power stations would produce in a year.” Currently up to 10% of the E10 petrol at the pumps is biofuel,...
Interview
In Conversation with Bangor Fuels
...sense of pride. Damian takes us back: “Most local people will recall Rayker Fuels, a coal business. Well, I managed them from 1994 and, after a few years there, I...
News
Family driven
...Family values From early roots in milk and coal after the Second World War to scrap metal in the early 1970s, Alan and Jack Ford founded the fuel business in...
Interview
In conversation with Jonathan Pinnock of JPS Fuels
...of those seven rollercoaster years. Family roots and early experience Fuel runs deep in Jonathan’s family. He is proud to be a fifth-generation fuel merchant, with family ties to coal...
Market Report
Portland Market Report – A spectacular own goal or a pivotal act of unknown agents?
...as a bridging fuel towards a lower carbon future (specifically to replace coal). Huge amounts of money were ploughed not only into the development of gas fields, but also into...