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Essar strengthens ASDA relationship with new deal
Essar Oil UK, which owns and operates the Stanlow Refinery, has today announced a new agreement with ASDA for the supply of petrol and diesel in the Midlands. ASDA has...
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Interview
In Conversation with The Oil Lady
The Oil Lady is a fuel distribution business based in little Yeldham, Essex. It was founded in 2015, by Sheila Considine. Claudia Weeks, Content Lead for Fuel Oil News, spoke...
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September 14 update
...North Sea oil had just been discovered and the slogan “it’s our oil” began to get traction. Back in October 2013, we looked at the downstream oil industry in Scotland...
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Naresh Nayyar returns to EET Fuels
...India’s second-largest private oil company) and Chief Executive Officer of Essar Energy Plc UK (then a FTSE 100 energy company). Crucial role Leading Essar Oil UK Limited UK as Chief...
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EET completes Pre-FEED for Stanlow SAF plant
Essar Energy Transition has completed the Pre-FEED stage for its planned methanol-to-jet sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production facility at Stanlow. The project, which EET says was completed on time and...
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It’s a cracker for Essar
...annual production of three billion litres of petrol, Essar Oil (UK) recently took delivery of a 450 tonne steel regenerator head for its residue catalytic cracking unit. Its delivery is...
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Big names at Essar’s literature festival
...2014 line up. Running from Friday, October 10th to Sunday, October 26th, this will be the third consecutive year that Essar Oil (UK) has sponsored the festival. Chester Performs has...
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A UK hydrogen first for Stanlow
...led by the HyNet consortium in the North West. The first sees Essar Oil UK as owner and operator of the UK’s leading low carbon hydrogen project with the company...
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Stanlow – a winner in the 2014 RoSPA safety awards
Essar Oil UK received the gold award for 2014 and the order of distinction for 18 consecutive gold awards at its Stanlow manufacturing complex. Delighted to be recognised for Essar...
Analysis
Energy Resilience – Is the UK facing a crisis?
...imports into the UK doesn’t face any disruption. For historical context, the UK once had 18 operational oil refineries in the 1970s. At the beginning of this year, the UK...
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Stanlow refinery could be target of Just Stop Oil disruption
...disruption in the area around the site as part of a protest against the oil sector. The group, who calls itself ‘Just Stop Oil’, is ‘a coalition of groups working...
Interview
Celebrating 50 golden years of Peak Oil
...feet. In October 1973, an oil crisis hit the UK because of the Yom Kippur War and the country was at the mercy of an oil embargo. Tom Pearson Oils,...
Analysis
ACTION – changing health & safety culture from the ground up
...tasked with delivering a cultural shift in the company’s own approach and chats here with Margaret Major, managing editor of Fuel Oil News about the exciting new strategy that has...
Insight
Heating future: prospects for kerosene and HVO
...and Belgium, using mazout, a heating gasoil grade. Currently, in the UK as regular burning oil, it accounts for around 15% of kerosene demand. When considering its future prospects in...
Analysis
Why kerosene surged: Inside the heating oil price shock
...While crude oil dominated the headlines, the most dramatic movements were in the kerosene market. For around 1.7 million UK households relying on heating oil, the result has been an...
Interview
The downstream customer
...oil and there is a premium price to be paid for last minute deliveries!” Sue reflected: “We think that oil distributors would help, but the quicker you want your oil,...
Insight
Security of oil supply in the fuel distribution sector
...oil requirements; for the UK it accounted for around 10% of total crude oil imports and around 18% of diesel requirements. In March of this year, IEA countries agreed to...
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UK refining – hunting for answers
...of our refining and downstream oil industry published in November 2011, Brian Worrall, then UKPIA president, said: “Given the right policy environment, the UK refining and downstream oil sector can...