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Embracing change over 50 years
...business grow steadily and in 1984 Ribble Fuel Oils moved to a purpose-built depot at Walton Summit in Preston. To find out more about the business 50 years on, Fuel...
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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...
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The next generation of fuel distributors
...distributor for the then continental oil company (CONOCO) at this time the business had expanded into road fuels, home heating oil and agricultural fuels. “Today Prince Petroleum is owned by...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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TOTY 2022 Runner Up: RTN – working hard to create solutions to customer problems
Whilst Road Tankers Northern was the winning manufacturer for the Fuel Oil News Tanker of the Year award for 2022 for the 4-wheeler fuel tanker submitted by fuel distributor WCF...
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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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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...
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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....
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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...
Market Report
Prices and predictions – what does 2025 have in store?
...crude oil tankers around the world, which roughly speaking, equates to a supply interruption of around 10m barrels of oil. This is easily enough to temporarily send prices northwards but...
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,...
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Reynolds Training Services partners with Smartflow on ISGOTT V6 app
...International Safety Guide for Oil Tankers and Terminals (better known as ISGOTT) provides clear guidance on how the operational interface between vessel and terminal should be managed safely. This includes...