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Analysis

Why kerosene surged: Inside the heating oil price shock

...many customers, the downstream sector has experienced similar volatility before. Markets move fast Oil markets react to geopolitical events within hours, with impacts flowing quickly into wholesale fuel prices. Price...

Analysis

Decarbonising transport: are additives the answer?

...“To what problem are fuel additives in the transport sector a short-term solution? Aviation fuel contains specific and regulated fuel additives. Tetraethyl lead is/was a fuel additive used extensively to...
Craggs Energy leadership team

Interview

A new chapter for Craggs Energy and Moorland Fuels

...our customers don’t just get fuel – they get reliability and consistency.” Where is the fuel distribution industry heading? “Liquid fuels will always have a role, especially in rural and...

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Wood Mackenzie e-fuels report

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E-fuels – the challenges and opportunities in e-fuels

...aircraft and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, for instance.  E-fuels, also known as electrofuels, eFuels, synthetic fuels, Power-to-X (PtX), Power-to-Liquids (PtL) and renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBOs), are a synthetic alternative...
Morgan Fuels tanker

Interview

Independent by choice:  Morgan Fuels at 45

From its beginnings in Newry to a fuel-card operation spanning 18 countries, Morgan Fuels has changed considerably over 45 years. What has not changed is its determination to remain independent....
Image of Watson Fuels tanker on country lane

Interview

From transformation to growth: Watson Fuels one year on

...what he calls the “and” word. “We need liquid fossil fuel and liquid renewable fuel and hydrogen and electricity and wind power and solar.” For the liquid fuel distribution sector,...

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Oil prices

Analysis

Why has the price of heating oil risen faster than crude?

...off-grid communities. Conflict involving Iran has sent shockwaves through global energy markets, pushing oil prices higher and disrupting fuel supply chains. While crude oil dominates the headlines, the most dramatic...
Dan Webb and Stephen Fletcher of Prema Energy

Interview

In conversation with Prema Energy

...a comparable cost. From here, we found more uses for the fuels – for example, as boiler fuel to replace heavy fuel oil in malt whisky production when carbon emissions...
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Insight

How fuel distributors can navigate a changing energy market

...designed to reduce fossil-fuel consumption and carbon emissions. That does not mean demand for liquid fuel disappears tomorrow. Liquid fuels continue to be embedded in essential parts of the economy...
Oil refinery at sunset

Analysis

What price oil? Q1 2026 in review

...in Paris to discuss taking action to stabilise energy markets. President Trump to meet US Energy Secretary tonight to discuss global energy markets as a result of the military campaign...