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Essar selects tech partner for Stanlow carbon capture facility
...a producer of low carbon fuels. Deepak Maheshwari, CEO of Essar Oil UK, said: “We are ready to move into the next phase of Essar Oil UK’s decarbonisation strategy. “With...
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Unveiled! Fuel Oil News Tanker of the Year winner for 2023
...Hynes, Operations Fleet and Compliance Manager, explains: “In recent years we have grown from Emo Oil, carried out two major acquisitions, Campus Oil and Jones Oil, and have finally become...
Interview
Essar Oil UK Ltd: from manufacturing complex to energy park
...future. Margaret Major, managing editor of Fuel Oil news and Claudia Weeks, content editor, met with Carlos Rojas, head of commercial at Essar, and Michelle Lewis, corporate affairs director, to...
Opinion
Budget provides welcome clarification on oil and gas decommissioning
Derek Leith, EY’s global oil and gas tax leader comments on today’s Budget: “It would be an unusual Budget if the Chancellor didn’t find some space for an oil and...
Interview
Tria Energy: leading Ireland’s HVO-first drive
...the discussion, Pat suggested he had been invited to speak as ‘an oil distributor that has done something a bit different’. When Margaret Major, Publishing Director for Fuel Oil News...
Interview
How Phillips 66 is driving the industry evolution to future fuels
...emerged when only vegetable oils (e.g. rapeseed, soybean and corn oil) were used as feedstocks, however, with the advancement in production methods allowing the use of waste fats, oils and...
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New Maxol motor oil range
...and symbols to make it easier to choose the correct motor oil. The symbols on each product indicate whether the motor oil is for petrol or diesel engines, or both...
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Unite challenges first minister on the future of Grangemouth
Unite has called on the first minister, John Swinney, to “show us the plan” over the future of the Petroineos oil refinery based in Grangemouth. In social media comments the first...
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Rural energy grid launched in Cornwall with Community Buying unLimited
...Kevin Bennetts, owner of Consols Oils, said: “Community Buying unLimited claims to be about to revolutionise oil sales and sort out dishonest inefficient oil suppliers. But to deliver oil you...
Interview
Doherty Oils – fail to plan, plan to fail
...wild locations “This year, we’re getting better prepared,” says Patrick Doherty, director of Doherty Oils which operates a fleet of five oil delivery tankers, distributing fuel throughout the Tyrone and...
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Further expansion at Inver Energy
...the Atlantic Fuel Supply Company’s oil import terminal at Foynes in the Shannon Estuary Since 2010, Inver Energy has operated through the new Atlantic Fuel Supply Company (AFSC) 82,000m3 oil...
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A product making a marked impact on fuel theft
...Major, group managing editor of Fuel Oil News, to explain how this led to the launch of a new product: exocet® Diesel Defender (xo1922bd) and how this marker solves the...
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Highlighting the importance of the downstream oil sector
...annual parliamentary reception for the UK downstream oil industry last month. “This successful event presented an ideal opportunity to highlight the importance of the downstream oil sector,” said Martin Vickers...
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Renewable liquid fuel availability report supports home heating oil market use
The UK domestic heating oil market can easily be accommodated within the overall requirement for renewable liquid fuels according to a major new report. The recently published report has found...
Interview
In conversation with Dave Walmsley: enthusiastic for NWF Fuels expansion
...– Sweetfuels, at the end of last year, Darch Oil, Consols Oils in Cornwall – are all predominantly domestic businesses. We have a very loyal and consistent customer base, but...
Insight
Liquid fuel industry and heat pump lobbyists in agreement over ‘unfair’ new oil boiler ban
The Heat Pump Federation (HPF) has joined the growing number of voices calling for a rethink on the proposed 2026 deadline for off-grid homes. Commenting that a ban on new oil...
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Campaign-leading distributor first to lift US imported HVO following tariff removal
Cornwall-based fuel distributor Mitchell and Webber undertook the first lifting of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) imported from the US at the Valero terminal in Cardiff last Thursday. Mitchell & Webber...
Interview
Marsh Fuels: two significant milestones
...latest in oil tankers with digital display. The arrival of our own oil storage in the late 1960s has been invaluable. World wars, a pandemic, freak weather events and drifts...