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Vintage year of success for Millers Oils
...power increases up to 5.6 percent, and when the nanotechnology oil was tested against a competitor’s oil, Nanodrive recorded 33% lower friction. Application of the technology to road car oils...
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Analysis
What price oil? Q1 2025 in review
...Ukraine was not represented at the talks. The US voted against a UN motion condemning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine’s President Zelensky visited the White House on 28th...
News
A good infrastructure?
...Climate Change (DECC), three separate reports on the subject have been undertaken by WoodMackenzie, Deloitte, and Purvin & Gertz. v UKdownstream oil infrastructure v Downstream oil – short term resilience and...
Insight
What price oil? 2022 in review
Ian Moore, founder and managing director of The Oil Market Journal, takes us through the year, highlighting the main impacts affecting the oil price in 2022. Contained within this article...
News
Clever chemistry fuels business
With most biodiesel currently traded through the Rotterdam barge market, one UK company has revealed ambitious plans to convince the UK that home grown biodiesel from waste is the way...
News
Biofuels – an uncertain future
...that a certain percentage of their total sales was from biofuels. RTFO stipulated that by 2010, 5% of all UK fuel sold on UK forecourts had to come from a...
Insight
Marine bunkering – fuel for a vital activity
...oil/ light fuel oil, with maximum density which can range between 0.890 and 0.920 kg/m3 at 15 degrees C Marine gas oil – meets the inland heating oil specification i.e....
Opinion
New UK oil essential for low carbon future
...oil fields like Cambo, says Katy Heidenreich, operations director at Oil & Gas UK (OGUK). Katy shares her thoughts with us: “Shell’s decision to suspend its involvement in Cambo, the...
Opinion
In the light of the Purvin & Gertz report discussed in FON’s July issue, are you worried about the UK’s refining resilience?
...the recent Energy and Climate Change Committee Inquiry: UK Oil Refining recognised the importance of oil products and UK refining to the UK’s economy. The report supported many of the...
Insight
The UK’s refineries: past, present and future
Past: Then there were eighteen In considering the future of the UK oil refinery network, we will first make a brief digression to see how it has evolved. Three of...
Insight
The Humber refinery – a key indigenous source of supply
...and distribution Petrol @ 32% Diesel/Gasoil @ 44% Kerosene/ Jet A-1 @ 8% Petroleum coke @ 6% Fuel oil @ 4% Petrochemical feed stocks @ 4% LPG @ 2% (Source:...
News
Risk reduction for domestic customers
...continue buying their kerosene through Oil Price Protect,” said Chris. “Prior to Oil Price Protect, like most other distributors, we did offer different ways to pay including direct debit. Customers...
Analysis
Fuelling progress: future fuels for transport decarbonisation
...carbon solutions for UK customers. GBF’s products are made from renewable feedstocks such as vegetable oils, animal oils and fat. The product range includes HVO Gd+, a low emission, advanced...
Interview
BoilerJuice: revolutionising operations
BoilerJuice is one of the leading heating oil marketplace websites in the UK. Established in 2004, the company delivers millions of litres of heating oil to thousands of customers every...
News
Heating oil’s future – making a difference
...million homes across the UK that use oil for heating. The FPS is urging the 1.2m homeowners in the UK who use heating oil, to take part in the government’s...
News
New $150m receivables portfolio for Essar
Essar Oil UK (EOUK) has successfully completed the financing of a $150 million receivables portfolio with Hamburg Commercial Bank AG (HCOB) and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd (UMTB). This new facility...
Opinion
UKPIA welcomes investments in hydrogen
...for manufacturing processes. As part of this announcement, it has been confirmed Essar Oil (UK) Limited will receive a grant of over £7 million towards the upgrade of a distillation...
Opinion
“Let’s shift our focus to our customers” – industry reactions to the new government
...partnering with the logistics sector to develop Labour’s promised industrial strategy, a move that would boost productivity for all areas of UK PLC, according to business group Logistics UK. Following...