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Crown Oil completes acquisition of Star Oil

North West-based Crown Oil has strengthened its brand in the North West after acquiring an £18m-turnover oil supplier. The Greater Manchester company, part of the £420m-turnover Crown Oil family of...

News

Making light work of heavy oil

...viably with prices as low as $15 a barrel! The company is now building new Rigs in the UK for overseas customers and the analysis of their oil samples. www.fluidoil.co.uk...

Opinion

Highs and lows of the oil price drop

...has been warned that 30,000 jobs in the gas and oil sector could be lost, with oil prices falling to their lowest in two decades. But, despite the global crash...

Opinion

OMJ anticipates oil market movements

Amidst a global lockdown resulting in less and less demand for oil, the oil market has been in turmoil. Ian Moore, director of the Oil Market Journal (OMJ) shares his...
Portland Christmas report

Market Report

A special Christmas market report from Portland

...for black gold there and then. Lauren Laverne Really. Did you find oil in the garden? Gaz Oil No. Course not. Lauren Laverne Oh. What was the song then? Gaz...

News

Oil Terminal 2015 – new multi-billion USD projects

...Bashneft. The agenda at the Oil Terminal 2015 industry forum reflects how growing oil exports have led to additional demands to increase the capacity of tank farms and exporting oil terminals....

News

Cautious industry response to fuel resilience bill

...in the first place. A UKPIA spokesperson commented: “Governments must ensure UK companies can remain competitive on the global market, especially as climate change policies change and we must compete...

Opinion

Consequences of IMO 2020

January 2020 saw a new limit on the sulphur content in the fuel oil used on board ships come into force, marking a significant milestone to improve air quality, preserve...

News

Streamlining the UK’s downstream infrastructure

...being falling market demand following the oil price rise in the aftermath of the first ‘oil shock’ which followed the October 1973 Yom Kippur conflict in the Middle East. Further...

Opinion

North Sea oil industry in crisis?

...in place from January 2021. A spokesperson from Oil and Gas UK said; ”While Oil & Gas UK cannot comment on the commercial decisions, and individual opinions, of its members,...

Insight

The case for a UK CSO agency

...Downstream Oil Reporting System and for importers in the Oil Stocking System. Additional provisions introduced in 2012 require that for motor spirit, diesel/gasoil and jet kerosene at least 22.5 days...

Analysis

Mabanaft – majoring in innovative independence

...diversify and expand. Marquard & Bahls owns Oiltanking, which is now one of the largest public oil and petrochemical storage companies in the world. In the UK, Mabanaft itself has...

Opinion

Preparing for a new oil world

Boris Ivanov Boris Ivanov, founder of GPB Global Resources discusses how the fuel oil industry can begin to prepare for the new oil world. With BP cutting 10,000 jobs and...