Insight
The emergence and growth of Puma Energy
...between Russia and Europe. A year later the company was consolidated under one management team. In 2010 Puma acquired the BP fuel marketing businesses in Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi and...
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Fair price award for Isle of Wight Fuels
Isle of Wight Fuels providing high quality products at competitive prices The award was presented to Isle of Wight Fuels by Community Buying unlimited, the co-ordinator of community buying initiatives...
Market Report
The increasing impact of China’s economy on global oil demand
...oil prices sky-rocketing and yet for most of the year, the market has remained fairly stable. Plentiful oil supply has helped of course, but on the demand side, it has...
News
Vote of confidence for Mabanaft
...pleased that 75% rate our prices as ‘good ‘or ‘excellent’. In effect, 100% of customers now rate our prices as ‘average’ to ‘excellent’. “Our performance for reliability of supply also...
News
Vital statistics for oil
...Department of Energy and Climate Change published its Energy Trends and Quarterly Energy Prices covering new data for Q4 2012 and provisional annual data for 2012. Key findings...
News
Government declares support for UK aviation as it unveils SAF mandate
The government has today published the details of its Sustainable aviation fuel mandate which will ensure ten per cent of all jet fuel on flights taking off from the UK...
News
FPS gets ready for winter
...prices are low. It now costs just £750 per annum (pa) to heat a typical three-bedroom home with a condensing oil boiler according to the latest figures from Sutherland...
Insight
Reducing fleet costs: how technology is reducing costs
...advanced technology can enhance a fuel distributor’s operations and deliver significant fleet costs savings. For some months now, the downstream market has been disturbed by various influences. Supply security and...
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,...
News
Energy statistics show fall in oil production
...compared to the previous year. The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published the figures in Energy Trends and Quarterly Energy Prices, publications which give statistics on energy production...
Insight
Ken’s Corner: Unintended consequences
...consumers. It has been recognised by government and other authorities that the presence of many small family-run businesses positively impacts the prices consumers pay for fuel. The large number of...
News
Truck cartels – claiming damages
...to claim compensation in court for any loss which they suffered as a result of the higher prices which they had to pay for trucks due to the price fixing,...
News
OMJ launches B7 Blended ULSD – UCOME Benchmark for UK
...a blend of Platts 10ppm ULSD and Argus UCOME prices. The new B7 blended ULSD – UCOME End of Day prices are published in US $/t. and GBP PPL in...
Opinion
Survey suggests supply chain at risk unless action taken
...Statement. That reduction was absorbed by rising fuel prices. It is estimated this would result in an average saving in operational costs of £2,424 per annum for each 44-tonne truck...
Opinion
Energy bill support welcome but raises questions over cost and timescale
...Logistics UK, comments: “Rising energy prices are a great concern to businesses across the logistics industry, which is already operating on low profit margins. The financial support provided by the...
News
Industry body sees transition as the solution
...the coronavirus pandemic and a 20 year low in oil prices. A proposed three-stage framework to support the sector in dealing with the immediate crisis while positioning it to play...
Opinion
The oil market continues its cautious rally but more uncertainty lies ahead
...supply side the two burning questions will be the ability of Saudi Arabia to continue to marshal cut-compliance if oil prices continue to rise, as well as the ability of...
News
Kerosene – community buying
...consumers, community fuel buying groups are not viewed favourably by all distributors. Tony Deakins, of Shropshire based Deakins Fuels, told FON: “I’m very much against such schemes. I don’t supply any buying...