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The winning car from the 2023 Formula Student UK competition

News

Formula Student to use all sustainable fuels in 2024

...Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is delighted to extend its partnership with Motorsport UK, in its role as key sustainability partner, and Coryton Fuels, to provide sustainable fuels to all...

Interview

Touchstar Technologies: planning for world domination

Liz Boardman, of Fuel Oil News, chats to Gordon Hyland, sales director at Touchstar Technologies, about software solutions, world domination and why the fuel distribution industry is such a great...

Opinion

Transportable lighting in the fuel industry

Ken Eddleston, senior lighting specialist at Chalmit, the market-leading manufacturer of lighting for industrial and harsh and hazardous environments, explains to Fuel Oil News why he believes that the fuel...

News

Level of illicit fuel is ‘alarming’

...number of border area fuel laundering plants and filling stations selling illicit fuel is ‘alarming’. Seamus Leheny, FTA’s policy & membership relations manager for Northern Ireland, said: “Every effort must...

Analysis

World Fuel Services – An expanding presence

...fuel suppliers by offering risk management services and alternative pricing options along with the supply of fuel. It supplies both regular commercial grades of fuel and speciality fuels via a...
In Conversation with The Oil Lady

Interview

In Conversation with The Oil Lady

The Oil Lady is a fuel distribution business based in little Yeldham, Essex. It was founded in 2015, by Sheila Considine. Claudia Weeks, Content Lead for Fuel Oil News, spoke...

News

UK Fuels adds 133 Co-op sites to its network

UK Fuels and the Co-op have signed an agreement that will see the Co-op filling stations added to the UK Fuels network.  This will allow UK Fuels card holders to...

News

Rawlings Fuels – putting the customer first

...offshoot of the transport business with the acquisition of Phoenix Fuels in 1993 with Rawlings Fuels formed to supply domestic heating oil throughout the area. The fuels business grew rapidly,...
A look at events impacting fuel prices in November and predictions for December

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Thoughts on fuel prices – November in review

...we’ll give it a go anyway.” Here, in her December blog, originally posted late November, Jennie Green of Right Fuel Card recaps on the big events impacting fuel prices during...
Trevor Wilson, MD of Road Tankers Armagh talks about expansion and future developments.

Interview

Road Tankers Armagh: quality without compromise

...expansion. With further expansion through 2022 it was time for another catch up, so Margaret Major, editor for Fuel Oil News, travelled to the specially adapted building in Armagh Business...

Interview

Bedford Fuels: fuel distribution one year on

At the start of this year, we spoke with Bedford Fuels Ltd, an ambitious new entrant into the fuel distribution community. The company celebrated its 1st anniversary at the beginning...

Opinion

Call for 10,000 temporary visas to address driver crisis

...the efficient movement of goods. We will continue to cover this industry crisis and if you are experiencing the impacts of driver shortages, please get in touch with us: margaret@fueloilnews.co.uk...

News

Urban Driver apprenticeship tackles HGV driver crisis

...for National Apprenticeship Week (7th-13th February) is ‘Build the Future’, something which the Urban Driver apprenticeship aims to achieve. While the fuel distribution sector has been less directly affected by...