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Bigger loads, better efficiencies for Kinch Fuel Oils
By upgrading from its previous Isuzu 7.5 tonne fuel oil tanker to a brand-new Isuzu 11 tonne tanker, Kinch Fuel Oils Ltd is benefiting from much greater additional payload using...
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Opinion
Warning over red diesel price hike
...where products that optimise combustion and increase fuel efficiencies of diesel, biofuels, HVO and other fuels can make a difference by enabling significant financial savings through reduced fuel consumption as...
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Four MX-5s are the first cars to drive the length of Great Britain using sustainable fuel
...fuels are, demonstrating the role sustainable fuels can play in de-carbonising both modern and classic cars, and further highlighting how sustainable fuels could complement Mazda’s Multi-Solution approach to achieving climate...
News
Distributor diaries September 2023
The latest updates from our distributor community Compass Fuel Oils – delivering 500l of kerosene to a lucky winner! Compass Fuel Oils, the Lancashire-based fuel distributor, has announced the winner...
Opinion
Industry welcomes fuel duty freeze in Government’s first Budget
...“Fuel duty will be frozen for at least another year. As the largest fuel distributor in the UK, we can sense the relief that customers are feeling with this news...
Market Report
Prices and predictions – what does 2025 have in store?
...own forecasts for 2024 oil prices. Our headline prediction in Jan ’24 was for oil prices to “trend sideways and stay in the $70-$80 per barrel mark”. Arguably this was...
Case Study
A digital transformation for Highland Fuels
...Ian Forsyth, Regional General Manager, Highland Fuels. Founded in Inverness in 1957, Highland Fuels is a growing, forward-thinking supplier of energy for homes, businesses, vehicles and marine craft in Scotland...
Opinion
Longer term impacts of coronavirus on the UK and Ireland’s oil industry
...managing director of GPB Global Resources B.V., the broader impacts of coronavirus on the oil industry Plummeting oil prices have had worldwide consequences but have been particularly painful for the...
Opinion
“Do you agree with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) that the Province should have more oil buying clubs?”
...more oil buying clubs, there will inevitably be more – batten down the hatches!” For further comment see the Value Oils blog – www.valueoils.com/blog/home-heating/heating-oil-buying-groups-2/ Joe Bradley, Bradley Fuels “I don’t...
Opinion
OGUK welcomes climate report impetus
...the UK is already cutting fossil fuel extraction. The nation’s oil and gas production actually peaked in 1999 when our continental shelf produced the equivalent of 1.7bn barrels of oil...
News
Fuel for thought…
...at a European, national and regional level. With over 1.5 million heating oil installations throughout these islands and millions more across Europe, the oil storage tank industry and the oil...
News
Oil theft – oil industry shows support with donation
...the oil industry responded generously with Solo Direct offering Whitehaven 1,000 litres of oil to demonstrate their support in this tough situation.” At Solo Direct Andrew Hutchinson told Fuel Oil...
News
Theft threat?
...communications manager. As an industry we must do everything we can to help customers secure their oil tank.” Share your thoughts on oil theft – prevalence and prevention liz@fueloilnews.co.uk https://blog.boilerjuice.com/3-ways-to-prevent-heating-oil-theft-in-your-area/...
Insight
No easy decisions at Whitegate
...support the country’s oil needs is Whitegate. Oil refining on the island of Ireland Originally commissioned in 1959, Whitegate has a distillation capacity of 71,000 bpd. One third of output...
News
Honeywell revolutionises ethanol-to-jet fuel technology in response to SAF supply concerns
Honeywell has announced the launch of its ethanol-to-jet fuel (ETJ) processing technology with this innovative, ready-now solution allowing ethanol producers or transportation fuel producers to convert corn-based, cellulosic, or sugar-based...
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More jobs in oil
As an oilfield tax allowance paves the way for hundreds of new jobs in the UK, the Oil and Gas Global Salary Guide 2013 says UK oil and gas professionals...
News
Is it time Northern Ireland had a competent persons scheme?
...that currently operating in England and Wales? Reported in the July issue of Fuel Oil News (pages 4 and 21), the fire is believed to have started in a shed...
News
Oil heating cheaper than mains gas
Jeremy Hawksley – welcome news for the industry and the 1.5 million UK households who use oil for heating Oil is now the cheapest of all the major heating fuels,...