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Essar selects tech partner for Stanlow carbon capture facility
...a producer of low carbon fuels. Deepak Maheshwari, CEO of Essar Oil UK, said: “We are ready to move into the next phase of Essar Oil UK’s decarbonisation strategy. “With...
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Five new renewable biomethane refuelling stations
...more than 50 gas trucks and plans to run its entire 500-strong delivery fleet on gas by 2028, while parcel company Hermes also plans to replace its 200-strong fleet of...
Insight
Sector legislation: Government strategy, incentives and progress for heat pumps
In a previous issue of Fuel Oil News (March 2022) we considered the increasing frequency with which core fuel distribution businesses within our community were changing their names and updating...
News
Inver expands sales at Cardiff
...and low sulphur gasoil. The company has observed the increasing product segmentation of the gas oil market: 10 ppm gasoil for non-road mobile machinery; 1000 ppm gasoil for industrial and...
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Essar chooses final tech partner for carbon capture facility
Essar Oil UK has announced Elessent Clean Technologies’ BELCO® gas cleaning technology as the final key licensor technology provider for its planned EET Industrial Carbon Capture facility at Stanlow. This...
Analysis
Ambitious EV growth targets raise UK grid concerns but what of the impact on oil demand?
...impacting global oil demand? According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), China’s oil consumption increased by only 180,000 bpd in 2024, less than one-fifth of the growth seen in 2023,...
Interview
Compass Fuel Oils: a new depot facilitates further growth
Compass Fuel Oils is a fuel distribution business based in Penwortham, Lancashire. Formed in 2009, Compass Fuel is an independent, nationwide fuel oil supplier who is proud to announce that...
Opinion
Oil & gas: embracing the digital future
The Covid-19 pandemic has definitely affected all existing industries and sectors on the planet — and oil and gas are not different. However, this doesn’t mean that the crisis has...
Knowledge
Questions remain as alternative fuel payments commence to heating oil users
...and those on the gas grid but without a gas connection and using heating oil, will need to apply to the Alternative Fuel Payment Alternative Fund (AFPAF) via an application...
Opinion
Stick or Twist: oil services have crucial choices to make as energy transition accelerates
...for the transferability of skills between oil and gas and low carbon, this is not always easy or evident. All oil services companies have core capabilities in particular areas –...
Market Report
Elections and energy policy: a powerful combination
...and for the last 5 years, the national oil company (PEMEX) has been used as a vehicle for both economic state building and poverty alleviation. New domestic oil exploration licenses...
Interview
A unique fuel industry set up for Convery Oils & Convery Engineering
Eamon Convery is the owner and manager of Convery Oils, a modern fuel distribution business based just outside Kilrea in Northern Ireland. Convery Oils delivers fuel products throughout Co. Derry,...
News
OilMaxx launches mobile fuel delivery service
...a one-stop solution for all their fuel and lubricant requirements. OilMaxx Express and OilMaxx are both part of the Oilfast Group of companies based in Motherwell, Scotland. Image credit: OilMaxx...
Market Report
The impact of the Red Sea crisis and why expansion to the north could be catastrophic
...20 years, the Aden refinery was one of BP’s most profitable, taking cheap crude oil from inland Yemen and converting it into heavy fuel oil for shipping. However, in 1977...
Interview
Darch Oil tanker driver Chris Eke on life on the road
Darch Oil, the Somerset-based distributor, has been supplying a friendly, reliable, and efficient service to its customers for over 30 years. Now part of NWF Fuels, Darch Oil continues to...
Opinion
UKIFDA encourages homeowners to start biofuel transition
...adds Guy Pulham. Exercising efficiency “If consumers want to change their existing oil boiler for a new oil boiler they can still do so. We recommend switching to a condensing...
News
Oil Terminal 2019 – Tank farms and oil terminals: operation, modernisation, development
...brings together 350+ delegates from oil and gas trading, storage, and shipping businesses representing refineries, oil terminals, and ports from 25 countries including Russia, the CIS, the Americas, Europe, and...
Opinion
A reliable and secure supply
...security of supply going forwards. The plan is for the terminal to be able to throughput five products: super unleaded gasoline, premium unleaded gasoline, gasoil, diesel and kerosene. The Prax...