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Activists adopt new tactics in oil terminal protests
...scary. The international Energy Agency has said there can be no new fossil fuel extraction, the General Secretary of the UN has said there can be no new fossil fuel...
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Opinion
Like-for-like comparisons key to investment in future marine fuels
...LNG). A common route to zero emissions All alternative fuels share a common decarbonisation pathway, starting at fossil-based versions and ending at low and zero-emission hydrogen-based, synthetic fuels. These synthetic...
Insight
The energy sector: COP27 takeaways and future challenges and prospects
...wealth from fossil fuels, leaving poor countries who haven’t benefited from those emissions with huge bills from the resulting climate impacts. After decades of calls to compensate climate victims in...
Opinion
Industry alliance leads the way toward zero carbon heating for Ireland
...by blending liquid biofuels, like ethanol, with petroleum-based fuels like petrol. There is no reason this logic cannot be applied to the heating sector, where liquid biofuels like hydrotreated vegetable...
Insight
BP Energy Outlook 2022 Edition – the outlook to 2050
With ‘Big Oil’ once again in the spotlight of scrutiny as a US investigation into the role of fossil fuels in driving the climate crisis accuses the industry of obfuscation...
Opinion
USA turn from fossil fuel ‘more direct, more fierce and quicker’ than expected
...were expected, the speed of implementation was not, and the world watched as the US changed its stance on fossil fuels almost overnight. In his first few days of Presidency,...
News
Government commits £32.5m to fund industry move from red diesel
The funding, announced on Friday, will support industrial sectors to move away from the use of fossil fuels and reduce emissions and energy costs through the development of greener technologies...
Opinion
Hydrogen (H2.0): a new dawn?
...in the footsteps of adoption trends into wind and solar energy in previous decades. For example, a single steel plant using hydrogen instead of fossil fuels to produce iron could...
Insight
Key challenges and opportunities facing the fuel distributor
...digtal applications to improve both operational efficiency / effectiveness and the scope for enhanced customer interaction. Backdrop: The growth of liquid fossil fuels, which started in earnest post WW2, has...
Interview
In Conversation with Chris Bingham of Craggs Energy Group
...fossil fuels. If we can continue to be part of the solution, then I think the long-term future for liquid fuels is very strong, be that HVO, hydrogen, or any...
Opinion
CCUS: why the UK needs it for net zero
...captured CO2 can be reacted with low carbon hydrogen to create E-fuels. These ‘drop-in’ fuels can directly replace conventional fuels using existing infrastructure and are a promising alternative to fossil...
Interview
James Hygate, Firefly Green Fuels: challenges and progress on the pathway to green aviation
...Fuels has helped its customers reduce their carbon emissions by an estimated 6.5 million tonnes. The biofuels industry “I have been working in the biofuels space for over two decades...
Opinion
Will rising fuel prices accelerate the switch to renewables?
...the latest agreement from OPEC+ to cut output has sparked fears of further price hikes. As businesses and international leaders look to counter the unpredictable costs associated with fossil fuels,...
Interview
Stanlow Terminals: a sustainable energy hub for the future
...biofuels and sustainable, low carbon, alternative fuels and that’s the direction that we are moving with too. “The benefit is that a lot of these future fuels will have a...
Interview
Jay Nair of Mabanaft: transition, inclusion and diversity
...distribution sector is undergoing its biggest change since the advent of fossil fuel. Over the next 10 years we will see a plethora of fuels offered to, and tested in,...
Opinion
Drive to see sustainable fuel used in all ICE vehicle ‘first fills’
...by fossil fuels. “Blends like SUSTAIN can save up to 80% of the greenhouse gases that are currently released by standard fossil fuel products. On a first fill of around...
Insight
Sector legislation: Government strategy, incentives and progress for heat pumps
...Report recommended, we need a plan covering multiple Parliaments that sets out how fossil fuels are to be gradually withdrawn in a measured way. As the Net Zero Review concluded,...
Insight
Downstream Norway: Leading the way in decarbonisation
...The country relies almost equally on fossil fuels and non-fossil fuels for its sources of energy, as follows: Coal 3% Gas 17% Oil 32% Biofuels and waste 7% Electricity 41%...