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OPEC+ agrees to continue with current output targets, despite market uncertainty

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What price oil? 2023 In review

...oil prices began moving higher, with ICE Gasoil pushing above $1,000/t. and ICE Brent Crude peaking at $95.55/b. ARA diesel inventories began falling below long-term averages as the reality of...

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Could heating oil prices be frozen?

...volatility which is generally seen as synonymous with oil. The future of Iran’s nuclear programme with the possibility of sanctions easing, civil unrest in Libya affecting its crude exports, and...

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Downstream Norway: Leading the way in decarbonisation

...who, respectively, source 42% and 17% of their requirements from Norway. Crude oil production is currently running at around 85 mln Mt/year, down from the 2001 peak of 163 mln...
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What price oil? Q1 2025 in review

...and impacts on, Brent crude and HVO diesel on a quarterly basis. With data supplied by The Oil Market Journal, we will highlight some of the key events that impact...

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A feeling of insecurity?

...also seen in the wholesale natural gas market over the last decade. A decline in domestic refining capacity coupled with the decline in crude production from the UK Continental Shelf...

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What price oil? 2022 in review

...is a graph which shows the price of Brent Crude throughout 2022. With data supplied by The Oil Market Journal, the markers highlight some of the key events throughout the...

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Strategic supply from Britain’s largest refinery

...mt/year). Subsequent additions took the total up to 330,000bpd (6m mt/year).  In 2012 Esso undertook a reconfiguration of the plant, closing one of its three crude distillation units, resulting in...

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Will summer fuel prices skyrocket in the UK?

...prices are usually highest. Geopolitics “The majority of the world’s crude oil comes from notoriously volatile countries. Recent tightening of sanctions on Iran by the Trump administration is expected to...

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The UK’s refineries: past, present and future

...was reached with BA to supply SAF from the refinery in to the Exolum (CLH) pipeline. Pembroke: Nameplate crude oil distillation capacity is about 10.5 million tonnes per year, with...

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Essar Oil UK – ‘a significantly better year’

...the configuration, the company has connected the refinery to the natural gas grid, materially diversified its crude slate, significantly improved the production of high value products and delivered a variety...

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Making light work of heavy oil

The V25 Test Rig at the Trondheim, SINTEF Research Institute Using environmentally friendly methods to process crude and dirty oils, Fluid Oil has commissioned its first heavy to light oil...

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Ireland’s downstream oil infrastructure

...and was mothballed for a short period. Crude oil processing was resumed with state ownership, under the aegis of the Irish National Petroleum Company. The facility was sold in 2001...