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Wayne to acquire Vianet’s fuel management subsidiary

...that there’s a great fit with Wayne who will take VFS to the next stage of development and growth.  This is a competitive landscape increasingly dominated by major global players...
Essar Oil UK appoints Tony Fountain as a non-executive board director

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Essar announces new energy transition appointment

...key time for Essar as it delivers on its investment plans of transitioning to be amongst the first low carbon refineries globally, Tony’s appointment will support the delivery of Essar...
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Market Report

Elections and energy policy: a powerful combination

...fuel, gas and electricity have all been increased. This pro-fossil fuel stance makes for an unusual left-wing administration in global terms, because decarbonisation programmes have principally become the mainstay of...

News

Phillips 66 enters UK market

From 4 July the company name of ConocoPhillips has changed to Phillips 66. The name change in the UK follows ConocoPhillips’ global repositioning of its upstream and downstream operations to create two...

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Volvo Trucks – synthetic diesel for all engines

Volvo Trucks has now approved the use of hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO) in all its Euro-5 engines with unchanged service intervals. In September 2015, there will be a global type-approval...
Celebrating 100 years: the Chemical Business Association

Interview

Celebrating 100 years: the Chemical Business Association 

...(DBT), advisory groups and other stakeholders on matters of global importance, with members of the team participating in several trade missions and regularly attending events for the Organisation for the...

Insight

Live from COP26: FON blog part 1 on SAF

...significant changes to reduce  emissions and to respond to the urgent global need to address climate change. Stephen Marcos Jones, director-general UKPIA, writes exclusively for Fuel Oil News from COP26...
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Market Report

The eternal influence of black gold

...of global energy markets. But all this was to change in 2015, when ExxonMobil struck Black Gold in the Atlantic Ocean, 120 miles off the Guyanese coast. Stabroek The Stabroek...

News

New head of global sales & marketing for Fairbanks

Tony Mills joins Fairbanks with a ‘large network of contacts’ Last week Tony Mills joined Fairbanks to assist with the delivery of the company’s global sales and marketing strategy. Formerly...

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Puma Energy announces Q3 2016 results

  Puma Energy, the global integrated midstream and downstream energy company has recently released its Q3 2016 results. Commenting on these results, chief financial officer Denis Chazarain said: “I am...
Airline deal brings major investment in UK SAF production

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Jet2 announces major investment into UK SAF production

...the development of a UK SAF industry and further underpins Fulcrum’s leading position in the global waste-to-SAF industry. “Fulcrum values this new partnership with Jet2, and we look forward to working...

Opinion

Highs and lows of the oil price drop

...has been warned that 30,000 jobs in the gas and oil sector could be lost, with oil prices falling to their lowest in two decades. But, despite the global crash...
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Insight

FETSA calls for overhaul of energy security strategy

...for a sweeping reform of Europe’s energy security framework – suggesting that national stockpile systems are no longer fit for purpose in today’s volatile global environment. Why reform now? FETSA,...
Delivering clean energy and protecting the environment with carbon offsets

Knowledge

Mabanaft: sustainability through carbon offset projects

...Carbon Offset. Carbon offsetting is achieved through global projects that cover a range of renewable and environmentally friendly energy sources. They include: Hydro Electric Wind Power Solar Energy Wind Farms...