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Vintage year of success for Millers Oils
...power increases up to 5.6 percent, and when the nanotechnology oil was tested against a competitor’s oil, Nanodrive recorded 33% lower friction. Application of the technology to road car oils...
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Interview
Doherty Oils – fail to plan, plan to fail
...Topaz Local Fuels team,” Adrian Gallagher, Topaz home heat business manager, told Fuel Oil News. “Many customers did not realise that their oil tanks were so low and the increased...
News
BWOC – a business with character
...month Fuel Oil News discussed the business with Mark and his team. “Bob grew up in the oil industry – he drove tankers, sold fuel and ran a terminal before...
News
Technology: Supporting the supply chain
...the automatic process of emptying of the manifold – drivers and fuel oil operatives can be confident that the correct fuel is delivered every time and free from contamination. “In...
Analysis
A deep dive into fuel distribution industry data
...solar and heat pumps. The census shows that the number of oil-heated homes has dropped 3% since the last census. It is likely that many oil-heated homes are in the...
News
Certified quality assurance for Irish fuel retailers and consumers
...area and encourage fuel suppliers to get on board so their consumers purchase with complete confidence. “Fuel adulteration can take different forms and in recent years, the most common form...
News
UK and allies announce price cap of $60 on Russian Oil
...secure affordable oil. A General Licence will be published shortly that will provide an Oil Price Cap exception for third countries, so that firms supplying oil to them are able...
Insight
What price oil? 2022 in review
Ian Moore, founder and managing director of The Oil Market Journal, takes us through the year, highlighting the main impacts affecting the oil price in 2022. Contained within this article...
News
£800,000 investment expands HVO fuel trials
...oil heating to the renewable fuel Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) this winter, amounting to an initial investment of over £800,000. The news follows the publication of the government’s Heat and...
News
Energy select committee visits the village at the heart of the industry fuel campaign
The latest development in the UKIFDA and OFTEC led Future Ready Fuel campaign saw the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee pay a visit to Kehelland, in Cornwall, the HVO-fuelled...
News
Crown Oil completes acquisition of Star Oil
...Oil for the time being. The deal is Crown Oil’s first purchase since 2018, when it added Birlem Oil, in London, and West Midlands-based Beesley Fuels to its portfolio. The...
Opinion
Crude falls below $100/bbl as OPEC+ increases output but for how long?
...crude oil stocks of 4.5 million barrels, had an immediate impact on the oil price with crude oil trading lower the morning after the OPEC+ agreement was announced. Falling below...
News
Octopus Energy accelerates clean air travel with investment in sustainable fuels
...forward to supporting Nordic Generation Fuels in the work towards this common objective.” Miko Pironetti, CEO, Nordic Generation Fuels, said:“We at Nordic Generation Fuels are delighted that Octopus saw the...
Insight
Mistletoe and Wine!
I unashamedly leave a copy of Fuel Oil News on the kitchen table in the hope that someone in the family is interested enough to read about what I do....
Opinion
Highs and lows of the oil price drop
...fuelled by heating oil. As the first wave of the Coronavirus spread across the globe, forcing the majority of the world into lockdown, the demand for fuel fell off a...
Market Report
The meteoric rise and sudden demise of State Oil
...year we normally deliver a light-hearted “summer special”. That will have to wait, because at the start of July, the UK fuel sector was rocked by the news that State...
News
Vulnerable rural households hit by discrepancies
...not extend to First Time Central Heating. This means that under the scheme, fuel poor households who currently rely on oil heating can have a broken oil appliance repaired or...
Review
The system with the intelligence to prevent conditioning downtime
...Technical Director Rob Terry, the CTS engineered Advanced Fuel Conditioner has been added to the range, as the ideal solution for keeping your customers’ stored fuel clean and usable in...