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What price oil? 2024 In review
...with industrial production lower than expected and crude runs falling by 7% on the year in October. Israel agreed a ceasefire with Lebanon, de-escalating Middle East tensions. Oil price review:...
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Total – adaptation plan to secure LOR’s future
...divestment, and encouraged by strong motivation of a competent management and workforce, Total has now defined an adaptation plan that will ensure a sustainable future for Lindsey Oil Refinery’s industrial...
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Oil-fired heating – time to back the most cost-effective option
Offering the best decarbonisation solution for oil heated homes, OFTEC says it’s time for government to back low carbon liquid fuels as the most practical, cost-effective solution. OFTEC’s recently released ‘Industrial Strategy for decarbonising oil heated homes’ underlines...
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Leading industry company celebrates 50 years of innovation
...an industrial building loan for our first factory at Andoversford near Cheltenham. Two years later we moved into the factory and we were then manufacturing around 200 tanks a month,...
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Leading hydrogen trade group lobbies parliament to propel UK to net zero
...Net Zero Dr Alan Whitehead, Deputy Speaker Dame Rosie Winterton, Conservative MP for Rushcliffe Ruth Edwards, who is a member of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, Conservative MP...
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Hydrogen success sees key milestone reached in Essar transition
...projects. The announcement by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) confirmed that projects to construct a new hydrogen plant and install carbon capture technology at the site...
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UK Hydrogen Policy Commission to give UK lead on hydrogen
...low-carbon hydrogen economy will be needed to help tackle the challenges” in the UK’s transition to net zero. With refineries central to low-carbon industrial clusters in the UK there is...
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BSI publishes revised fuel oils standard to avoid safety and performance issues
BSI has fully updated the BS 2869:2023 which specifies eight different classes of fuel oil for agricultural, domestic, commercial and industrial fixed combustion applications with the aim of helping users...
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Industry welcomes Chancellor’s £20bn backing for carbon capture and storage
...delivering on one of our five promises to grow the economy.” Track 1 expansion The chancellor also confirmed that two additional industrial clusters will be selected through track 2 of...
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Moves to quell Grangemouth fears after speculation over refinery’s future
...repercussions.” Green MSP Gillian Mackay said: “I grew up in Grangemouth and know how important a just transition will be for workers, the planet and the communities that surround the...
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AVK and Rolls-Royce reinforce commitment to net zero
...sales and collaboration. During 2024, the number of mtu generators from Rolls-Royce delivered by AVK has exceeded 500. These are HVO-ready and primarily sold into data centre, industrial and buildings...
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EET welcomes Government backing of hydrogen project
...industrial decarbonisation EET Hydrogen, a division of EET, is developing the first large scale, low carbon hydrogen production hub in the UK at its site in Stanlow. This hub will...
Interview
Celebrating 50 years of innovation
...steel and finished tanks were manually handled. No forklifts! Within 2 years, we persuaded CoSIRA (Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas) to give us an industrial building loan for...
Opinion
Transition talk
...perceived as major polluters, such as oil and gas, chemical and automotive, logistics and large-scale industrial manufacturing. I have been working closely with companies in these industries for over a...
Analysis
World Fuel Services – spreading the word
...through Liverpool-based Henty Oil and Falmouth Oil, the company has established a solid supply chain which provides light fuels for the domestic, commercial, agricultural and industrial markets in addition to...
News
Phillips 66 sees Humber refinery project shortlisted for Phase-2 CCUS
...part of Humber Zero, a world-scale carbon reduction project, which aims to prevent up to 8 million tonnes of CO2 from the Immingham industrial area entering the atmosphere by around...
Interview
Darch Oil tanker driver Chris Eke on life on the road
...invoicing. “The delivery count can vary anywhere from 10 to 30 drops a day. The majority are domestic, but we do a wide range of farms and industrial drops too....
Opinion
Is nuclear one of the largest untapped opportunities for decarbonisation at scale?
...development of low-carbon technologies and infrastructure is vital to continue clean business growth. Several green options are becoming readily available and Caroline Longman, director at solutions provider Equilibrium suggests nuclear,...