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Fuel prices trigger a cost of delivering crisis for Santa

Opinion

Fuel prices trigger Santa’s cost of delivering crisis

2022 has seen unprecedented fuel prices which have added pressure to supply chains already creaking at the seams from Brexit and driver shortages. The fuel duty cut announced in March...
Wood Mackenzie e-fuels report

Insight

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...

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...
A new approach born from a deep understanding of fuel distribution

Interview

Value Oils: leader in online fuel distribution

Donall O’Connor began his time in fuel distribution working for Connors Fuels – a small, family-run, solid fuel business – before moving to the Maxol Group when it acquired the...
Fuels Industry UK

Insight

The UK fuel industry: latest statistical analysis

As Fuels Industry UK publishes its 2024 Fuels Statistics report, we consider the fuels sector in the light of its findings. The Fuels Statistics report is an annual analysis of...

News

Will summer fuel prices skyrocket in the UK?

...diesel and fuel prices further Using data from GlobalPetrolPrices.com, Speedy Fuels was able to compare the price of diesel globally and discovered a stark contrast in the price of the...

News

September 14 update

...with another financial crisis and oil prices could plummet to below $50 per barrel. It has happened in the very recent past – in 1999 oil prices were $15 per...
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...
What is likely to be fuelling your future replacement trucks?

Analysis

Replacement trucks: what will be the future fuels?

...fuel suppliers – those who sell more than 450,000 litres of applicable fuels – do this by redeeming Renewable Transport Fuel Certificates (RTFCs) or by paying a fixed sum for...
Portland Report August

Market Report

Prices and predictions: how are we faring?

...$85 per barrel. At the beginning of April however, there was a steep drop in prices, as Brent quickly retreated from the highs of the year so far (5th Apr...

News

The distributor offer revisited

...of the value chain – whether filling station pump prices, heating oil prices or those charged to commercial/industrial users.  This has recently triggered an OFT investigation into how pump prices...