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Oil users – fuel price winners once again!
Following the release of the latest comparative average heating price figures from Sutherland Tables, OFTEC reports good news for most oil heating users in the UK. Detailed below, the figures...
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Greenergy acquires Amsterdam biodiesel manufacturing facility
...oils but was never commissioned. Greenergy plans to carry out works over the next year to convert the facility to process waste oils rather than vegetable oils and then to...
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Oil Terminal 2015 – positive feedback
The awards ceremony celebrated the achievements of the best tank farms and terminals from over 100 nominated companies. Finalists and winners can be found at www.oilterminal.org/nominations-2015 Major oil companies across Russia and...
Interview
Tria Energy: leading Ireland’s HVO-first drive
Tria Energy has diversified dramatically from its origins as Tria Oil, a legacy fossil fuel company, to become a leading supplier of low carbon liquid fuel across the UK &...
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Highlighting the importance of the downstream oil sector
UKPIA director general, Stephen Marcos Jones, attended the annual reception for the UK downstream oil industry where Martin Vickers MP acknowledged the sector to ‘be a valuable and strategic asset...
Interview
Compass Fuel Oils: a new depot facilitates further growth
Compass Fuel Oils is a fuel distribution business based in Penwortham, Lancashire. Formed in 2009, Compass Fuel is an independent, nationwide fuel oil supplier who is proud to announce that...
Interview
A unique fuel industry set up for Convery Oils & Convery Engineering
Eamon Convery is the owner and manager of Convery Oils, a modern fuel distribution business based just outside Kilrea in Northern Ireland. Convery Oils delivers fuel products throughout Co. Derry,...
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OilMaxx launches mobile fuel delivery service
...a one-stop solution for all their fuel and lubricant requirements. OilMaxx Express and OilMaxx are both part of the Oilfast Group of companies based in Motherwell, Scotland. Image credit: OilMaxx...
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The impact of the Red Sea crisis and why expansion to the north could be catastrophic
...20 years, the Aden refinery was one of BP’s most profitable, taking cheap crude oil from inland Yemen and converting it into heavy fuel oil for shipping. However, in 1977...
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OGUK confident despite Shell Cambo stance
...and politicians of all parties to make this case.” How reliant is the UK on oil and gas? OGUK’s Economic Report (September 2021) showed that oil and gas provided 73%...
Interview
Oil clubs, drums, kero pumps and NIOF distributors
...contamination from drips/spillages as it’s poured into the household tank. “Small oil drums are for emergency use only. They should provide a small amount of oil – often in an...
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Community Buying – The organisers’ view…
...customers to purchase their oil before December to try and avoid paying an inflated price.” Keith Weller, co-ordinator of the Worcestershire-based Bayton Oil Syndicate agrees: “I get people to buy...
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Bungalow destroyed by tank fire
Find an OFTEC registered technician at www.oftec.org.uk/Consumers/FindTechnician In the wake of an oil tank fire which destroyed a bungalow in Belvoir, Belfast last week, OFTEC has again issued safety advice...
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Heating oil theft falls
OFTEC registered technicians can assist your customers with advice on the necessary precautions to protect their oil heating assets OFTEC has welcomed research which reveals that heating oil is no...
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Ministers urged to secure future oil refining capacity
...oil refineries in the UK. “We consider the oil industry to be critical to the UK economy. In an increasingly unstable world where new supplies of crude oil will need...
Interview
Negotiating the swings and roundabouts of fuel distribution
...from Donall O’Connor, Value Oils in last month’s Fuel Oil News) Numerous consumers now keep a couple of drums and refill these at forecourt kerosene pumps for a minimal premium...
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Dealing with price volatility
...“Delivering this accurate and timely information to the downstream oil markets, helps distributors across the UKand Irelandto reduce exposure and optimise performance,” added Basil. “Being located close to the main...
Interview
Oil v gas
...likens the presence of gas to the new competition posed by the selling of home heating oil on forecourts. The Northern Ireland Oil Federation (NIOF) has little doubt that the...