Interview
In conversation with Prema Energy
...to the Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme. Biofuel oils made from tall oil pitch and later rapeseed oil distillation residue were developed to replace residual fuel oil in these plants at...
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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...
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
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
Rapidly changing oil market creates pricing and supply issues
...to deliver the fuels the UK needs, while rearranging supply away from Russian crude oil and oil products to alternative sources in compliance with UK sanctions legislation. “Global markets have...
News
Fuel Prices Online™ merges with The Oil Market Journal™
...announced their merger. Both FPO and OMJ provide intraday and settlement oil price information to UK and Irish oil distributors, service stations and other large volume oil buyers. Basil Shourou...
Insight
Oil-price survey forecasts Brent to be above $80 a barrel by end of 2024
According to the majority (53%) of respondents to Bloomberg Intelligence’s February oil-price survey, Brent oil is expected to be above $80 a barrel at the end of 2024 – the...
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,...
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...
Market Report
Prices and predictions – what does 2025 have in store?
...own forecasts for 2024 oil prices. Our headline prediction in Jan ’24 was for oil prices to “trend sideways and stay in the $70-$80 per barrel mark”. Arguably this was...
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...
News
Activists claim oil terminals were ‘totally blocked’ in new protests
...by Just Stop Oil with several weeks of coordinated protest actions at oil terminals and other oil infrastructure in the Midlands and south of England from April. Pausing oil terminal...
Opinion
Longer term impacts of coronavirus on the UK and Ireland’s oil industry
...with the travel arrangements for key workers. Oil and Gas UK has described the descent of the oil price as a “body blow” to the sector and called on “governments”...
Opinion
“Do you agree with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) that the Province should have more oil buying clubs?”
...more oil buying clubs, there will inevitably be more – batten down the hatches!” For further comment see the Value Oils blog – www.valueoils.com/blog/home-heating/heating-oil-buying-groups-2/ Joe Bradley, Bradley Fuels “I don’t...
Opinion
OGUK welcomes climate report impetus
...chief executive of OGUK said: “The UK offshore oil and gas sector is changing, as oil and gas companies are increasingly pioneering greener energy. It’s vital we harness the sector’s...
News
Fuel for thought…
...at a European, national and regional level. With over 1.5 million heating oil installations throughout these islands and millions more across Europe, the oil storage tank industry and the oil...
Market Report
Saving Mexico’s state oil giant – a strategy of hope over experience.
...nationalisation of all privately held oil interests in Mexico and for most of the 21st Century, Pemex has been Latin America’s second largest enterprise by annual revenue (Brazil’s state-run oil...
News
Oil theft – oil industry shows support with donation
...Northern Ireland Oil Federation (NIOF) resulted in Solo Direct offering to give the unit 1,000 litres of oil to help during this difficult time. With £1,000 worth of oil stolen...