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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News
UK Fuels adds 133 Co-op sites to its network
UK Fuels and the Co-op have signed an agreement that will see the Co-op filling stations added to the UK Fuels network. This will allow UK Fuels card holders to...
News
Rawlings Fuels – putting the customer first
...offshoot of the transport business with the acquisition of Phoenix Fuels in 1993 with Rawlings Fuels formed to supply domestic heating oil throughout the area. The fuels business grew rapidly,...
News
Valero brand enters the UK fuel retail market
Valero is opening its first Valero-branded fuel retail site in the UK in October, marking the introduction of the first new fuel retail brand in the UK since 2015. Ascona...
Opinion
Increasing fuel duty would harm growth, warns Logistics UK
...increased fuel costs on to consumers. Current industry estimates suggest that the weekly fuel bill for a 44-tonne diesel HGV is around £888, with £436 taken in fuel duty by...
News
Craggs support community during fuel crisis
Craggs Energy and Craggs Fuel Cards proved again how vital our industry is to the communities we serve when they opened up their Padiham Fuel Station to the public, with...
Interview
Oil clubs, drums, kero pumps and NIOF distributors
...local market in Northern Ireland, where 275 distributors supply around 500,000 homes, these savings are frankly not realistic. Reviewing the Fuel Oil News Price Totem the actual distributor margin in...
Analysis
Fuelling success: a distributor overcoming talent and driver shortages
...out how a strategic partnership helped trusted fuel distributor, WP Group, overcome a critical recruitment issue. About WP Group WP Group, a trusted and comprehensive UK fuel partner, goes beyond...
Insight
Aggreko implores industry to adopt a pragmatic approach to future fuels
...of drop-in fuels for decarbonising existing equipment, the company is reinforcing the role of alternative fuels for use with temporary power, HVAC and compressed air equipment. Sustainability targets With unwavering...
Analysis
A just transition for Grangemouth?
...planning to become a fuels’ import terminal. “As we have told Government, the fuels sector is vital for the nation’s energy security and net zero ambitions, but faces difficult investment...
News
Confirmed: Grangemouth, the UK’s oldest refinery, is to close in 2025
...fuel supply for Scotland. We currently expect Grangemouth to be ready to operate as a national distribution hub for finished fuels in Q2 next year. “Unfortunately, a terminal would require...
Opinion
Drive to see sustainable fuel used in all ICE vehicle ‘first fills’
Industry fuel specialists are calling for new car manufacturers to help fuel a reduction of approximately 19.4M kg of CO2 released each year from fossil fuel. The sustainable fuel developer...
News
Nicholl Fuel Oils achieves a fuel first
Nicholl Fuel Oils has installed Northern Ireland’s first hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuelling facility at its Carryduff 24-hour forecourt with plans to make this new, renewable biofuel available across all...
News
August update
...fuel? At present, the EU as a whole imports roughly one million tonnes of jet fuel per month from the Persian Gulf and North Africa, with imports nudging two million...
News
AHFL chooses UK for revolutionary plastic-to-fuel plant
Advanced Hydrocarbon Fuels Limited (AHFL) has targeted the UK as the home of the first commercial-scale plant to demonstrate its revolutionary process which creates fuel from waste plastic. Solving the...
Opinion
Fuel duty freeze welcomed across sector
...£1bn unexpected windfall, it was a time for the Government to have cut Fuel Duty significantly. It was a time too, to incentivise drivers to move to cleaner fuels and...
News
Cautious industry response to fuel resilience bill
A bill aimed at maintaining fuel supply to customers in the event of disruption has been published. The draft Downstream Oil Resilience Bill, which was introduced last month by energy...
News
OptiMate is the key to MechTronic success in Ireland
...years has helped fuel oil operatives to invest in their fleet and move towards metering systems that don’t just simply meter fuel but offer additional benefits to the fuel oil...