Analysis
World Fuel Services – spreading the word
...Services (Europe) World Fuel Services entered the UK’s inland market in 2007. Fuel Oil News, which first wrote a feature article about the company in August 2009, was keen to...
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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
A product helping to tackle the rising wave of fuel thefts
...reporting dramatic rises in fuel thefts from building sites as criminals identify easy pickings to steal white diesel. Soaring oil prices have added fuel to the fire and, as winter...
News
Motorsport UK grant enables Coryton Fuels to add sustainable fuel option to Formula Student
Motorsport showcases the role for sustainable fuels in transport decarbonisation as another Formula joins the trend for renewable liquid fuel options. This year, for the first time, Europe’s most established...
News
New Conidia Bioscience test kit speeds up fuel contamination detection
...FUELSTAT® One can be used to monitor fuel quality throughout the fuel supply chain, from storage terminal to fuel tank. A simple, rapid lateral flow test, conducted on either free...
News
Fuel distributor on the road to a more sustainable future
Southampton-based fuel supplier WP Group is fuelling change for a cleaner greener future by moving its own fleet over to the more sustainable Esso Diesel Efficient™ fuel, as it has...
Analysis
Improving the UK’s fuel supply network
Earlier this year, Oikos Storage and Essar Oil finalised a significant deal to expand the latter’s fuel distribution into the South East of the UK. The agreement leverages Oikos’s strategic...
Interview
Celebrating 50 years of innovation
...Then in November of 1973 OPEC suddenly decided to rapidly increase the price of crude oil which literally changed the domestic heating scene overnight.” That year, the price of kerosene...
News
A feeling of insecurity?
...2012 contributed towards a 10%-15% increase in the price of crude oil that was reflected in the markets for petroleum products. As well as impacting energy prices, this in turn...
Opinion
OMJ anticipates oil market movements
Amidst a global lockdown resulting in less and less demand for oil, the oil market has been in turmoil. Ian Moore, director of the Oil Market Journal (OMJ) shares his...
News
Heating oil’s future – making a difference
“Oil is the cheapest option for off grid homes and has been since October 2014,” says FPS chief executive Guy Pulham. The FPS is urging all those using oil to...
Insight
A look at the shape of the future UK downstream oil sector landscape
...Resellers/Wholesalers/Importers GB Oils, Greenergy, Harvets Energy, Mabanaft, Prax Petroleum, World Fuels Certas Energy, Greenergy, Mabanaft, Puma Energy, World Fuels The chart provides a summary of the landscape’s evolution over the...
News
The Phillips 66 Interview
...to grow its market share here. Fuel Oil News editor, Jane Hughes asked managing director, Pete George about the business, refining and fuels and its relationship with fuel oil distributors....
News
UKPIA welcomes FuelsEurope climate neutrality pathway
A FuelsEurope pathway describing how low-carbon liquid fuels could enable the transport sector to contribute to EU’s climate neutrality objective by 2050, has been welcomed by UKPIA. The ‘Clean Fuels...
Interview
Breaking barriers and challenging the industry
...in sustainability. We were one of the first fuel distributors to distribute and champion Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) in the UK, a renewable fuel that can reduce carbon emissions by...
Opinion
Creating a low carbon energy system
...heating oil from refineries almost daily. In the first 10 days of the invasion prices were increasing on average 5p per litre per day, making it almost impossible to price...
Opinion
“A solution to plastic pollution that makes business sense.”
Advance Hydrocarbon Fuel Limited is the first alternative fuel company to create a business-viable process for converting waste plastic into fuel and is targeting the UK for the company’s first...
Insight
UK Downstream: the changing landscape
...the UK aviation fuel sector – Mabanaft, World Fuels and the world’s largest oil trading group, Vitol. Demand is not expected to recover to pre-covid levels until around 2024, and,...