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An impressive new next generation tanker comes close to taking the title of TOTY 2022

News

TOTY 2022 Runner Up: Craggs – a next generation tanker

...range of liquid fuels safely and efficiently. DAF is known for its commitment to safety and quality, and the tanker is constructed with high-grade materials, to ensure durability and longevity,...
Claudia Weeks talks to Simon van Lonkhuyzen, Managing Director at TEC.

Interview

TEC: driving forward through innovation

...redefine industry standards, particularly with its groundbreaking low drag cover, resulting in a market-leading drag coefficient. “One of the most significant advantages of TECOIL’s low drag cover is its potential...

Opinion

How we can use hydrogen to achieve net zero

...of green electricity generated from renewable sources will always be more efficient than hydrogen, as energy losses occur during the conversion of electricity to hydrogen, its transportation, storage, and reconversion...

Insight

The UK’s refineries: past, present and future

...around 40% of refinery production, while net imports of diesel represent around 50% of inland requirements and, in the case of Jet A-1, about two thirds of requirements. Four of...

Market Report

Disrupting the sector: the new Nigerian super-refinery

...be converted to something useful locally (i.e., petrol, diesel, lubricants, plastics). It also presents an interesting paradox for a country that it has to export its entire crude production (2m...

News

More diesel laundering sites discovered

Two men from Great Yarmouth were arrested last week after HMRC dismantled a diesel laundering plant, capable of evading over £1.3 million in duty and taxes a year. Storage tanks,...

Insight

Marine bunkering – fuel for a vital activity

...supplied to vessels which remain within UK coastal waters). As a rough and ready rule of thumb, vessels up to about 6,000 DWT use marine diesel/gas oil for propulsion, while...

News

Thames Oilport – additional diesel tankage

...competitive new refineries Thames Oilport is to expand the amount of tankage to be used for diesel storage, bringing into use a further 56,000 cbm of tankage from Q1 2017....

News

Certas Energy powers Silverstone’s race to net zero

...ongoing commitment to the environment.” HVO is a lower carbon alternative diesel which offers immediate greenhouse gas emissions savings of up to 90% compared to diesel across the product life...

Insight

Refining operations

...2009 a substantial capital project was completed with the commissioning of a new distillate hydro treater and hydrogen production unit to increase the plant’s capability to produce sulphur free diesel....
Concerts and carbon

Market Report

Concerts and carbon – what price entertainment?

...set from city to city, consuming around 500,000 litres of diesel per month. But the real constant of globe-spanning musical tours is endless air travel, and Taylor Swift is America’s...