Interview
Preparing for the red diesel rebate changes
...“putting clean fuel into a dirty tank will only speed up the contamination process and deterioration of fuel – best practice is to maintain the cleanliness of your tank both...
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News
Biofuels – an uncertain future
...“ says Mabanaft’s biofuels’ manager, Robin Lloyd The legal background The Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO) came into force in April 2008, placing an obligation on fuel suppliers to ensure...
Insight
Association stats show steady progress towards net zero
...fuels. Growth in renewable fuel consumption Among the headline findings this year is that renewable fuel use, which on average has an overall greenhouse gas (GHG) saving of 82% compared...
News
Future fuel ready tanker is Fuel Oil News Tanker of the Year
...new fuel type during 2022; however, this is subject to completion of successful trials and obtaining government approval for use of HVO as a heating fuel. Kettlewell Fuels commissioned COBO...
News
BSI publishes revised fuel oils standard to avoid safety and performance issues
...provides detailed, application-specific, fuel oil specifications to reflect the need for changes in end users’ equipment, legislation, market use and the application specific use of fuel oils and fuel oil...
Knowledge
HVO – The issue of sustainability
...supplying the fuel that it is committing to when applying for Road Transport Fuel Certificates (RTFCs). Without this, a biofuel would not be a commercially viable option for end users.”...
Opinion
The community speaks
...non-fleet applications. Continued growth of renewable and sustainable fuels across both the supply and consumer networks. Continued uptake in sustainable fuels. Improved pricing indices for sustainable fuels. Lower inflation. An...
Interview
Value Oils: leader in online fuel distribution
Donall O’Connor began his time in fuel distribution working for Connors Fuels – a small, family-run, solid fuel business – before moving to the Maxol Group when it acquired the...
News
100% increase in demand for low-carbon fuel sees CNG Fuels open tenth biomethane refuelling station
CNG Fuels, Europe’s leading supplier of renewable biomethane for transport, today announces the opening of its tenth low-carbon HGV refuelling station in Castleford, as demand for the fuel takes off,...
Interview
Avioxx: innovating processes to deliver price parity for sustainable aviation fuel
Avioxx was a company born from the desire to transform waste hydrocarbons, destined for incineration or landfill, into high grade, sustainable aviation fuel. Claudia Weeks, Community Content Lead for Fuel...
Interview
In Conversation with Chris Bingham of Craggs Energy Group
...6 months after we launched, we were asked by a company called Clovemead Fuel Services if we could partner with them to transfer, and clean, fuel across the UK for...
Interview
Stanlow Terminals: a sustainable energy hub for the future
...correlated fossil fuel requirement. If you take jet fuel for example, the sustainable aviation fuel that Fulcrum will manufacture has to be blended at least 50% with fossil jet fuel...
News
Crossing the finishing line
...Fuel Services under Dave Whiskerd and Mike Grayton managed the contract to supply over 25 million litres of fuel and associated products from the site, operating and manning the fuel...
Interview
Rawlings Fuels putting the customer first
...Fuels business which began as an offshoot of the transport business with the acquisition of Phoenix Fuels in 1993 with Rawlings Fuels formed to supply domestic heating oil throughout the...
Interview
Sustainable aviation fuel: routes to feedstocks that can fill the production gap
...portfolio for sustainable aviation fuels. In any consideration of decarbonisation goals, the main fuels that come under scrutiny are diesel, jet and petrol (gasoline). With electrification largely viewed as the...
Analysis
UK Downstream: bringing in the next generation
...fuel industry was to work in a fast- paced environment where one day is never the same as the next. Although it may have bad press, the fuel industry forms...
Analysis
The changing face of the fuel depot
...of our industry and, today, most fuel distributors are large companies with multi-site operations. The increased legislation affecting fuel depots could have partly fuelled this change. “In a world with...
Opinion
Why is fuel filter blocking still an issue?
...The taskforce has had some small wins regarding changes to fuel specifications but getting those changes into the fuel supply chain have been delayed. “Testing of fuel samples has shown...