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Implications of the UK’s EV pivot in a global storm  

...and still account for less than 0.1% of heavy goods vehicles. Implications for fleet operators and fuel suppliers These trends underscore the rising operational presence of EVs, particularly in van...
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Distributor diaries June 2024

...we settled on trying to complete the National Three Peaks.” The team includes representatives from Rix K9 Fuels, part of the Hull-based national fuel supplier Rix Petroleum – as well...

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Centre Tank Services celebrates 35 years

...in us becoming one of the UK’s leading suppliers for fuel dispensing, storage tank, lubrication and AdBlue equipment. “CTS was established in 1987 by my father, Mike Terry, along with...

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FPS EXPO 2015 – have you booked?

Spaces at FPS EXPO 2015 are filling faster than ever reports the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers. With just over three months to go before the exhibition takes place at the...

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A lubricants package that delivers

Lee Burgess (l) and Ian Appleton With cost cutting top of many a distributor’s business agenda, Fuel Oil News asks are there any opportunities available to increase profit? Speaking to...

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Major business win for Maxol

Maxol Lubricants is now supplying Ireland’s Defence Forces with high quality lubrication oils In mid December Maxol Lubricants secured a contract to be sole supplier of lubrication oil to the...

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Could heating oil prices be frozen?

...very little mention was made of other fuels such as heating oil. The possibility of a heating oil price freeze Citing international factors, gas and electricity suppliers plus a number...

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Phillips 66 shares future growth plans

...expo where a number of Phillips 66’ key suppliers and industry partners were on hand to share advice, offer demonstrations, and highlight new products and services available to Phillips 66’...

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Backing a certainty

Paul Vian – ambitious plans for Certas Energy In November 1999, I interviewed my very first fuel distributor at Carlton Fuels which had just been listed among the north-west’s top...

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Credit where it’s due

...early withdrawal of cover for suppliers. “Insurers were forced to defend their actions and reputations, despite paying out millions of pounds on the insolvencies of firms such as Petroplus in...

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Speed networking for the tank storage industry

StocExpo featured over 200 internationally renowned suppliers, two thirds of whom have rebooked for next year’s event StocExpo Europe 2017 had ‘a triumphant return to Rotterdam’ last month. The show,...
What does a typical day look like for an award winning fuel supply coordinator?

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A Day in the Life…George Brinkworth of Ford Fuels

...Brinkworth, fuel supply and pricing coordinator at Ford Fuels, and winner of the UKIFDA young person of the year award, to discover how George spends a typical day. MY ALARM...
It is with great sadness that we report the peaceful passing, on 27th December 2022 in his 98th year, of Sidney Gilmore.

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Sidney Gilmore

...Hylands, who told him that there was good money to be made from oil, triggered Sidney’s move into fuel distribution and saw the launch of Gilmore Fuel Oils, a business...

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Future fuel distributor sponsors conference

...first UK fuel suppliers to run its entire fleet on HVO and is also the main HVO supplier to UKIFDA and OFTEC’s residential renewable liquid fuel demonstration project which aims...