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Opinion

North Sea oil industry in crisis?

...Sea being profitable as oil is below $60 per barrel. “It is almost impossible to make money at these oil prices,” says Mr Allan, director of Premier Oil in addition...

Interview

Taking action in Ireland

...of oil as a viable, trustworthy and efficient fuel and heating solution. “Everyone needs to make a concerted effort to push oil and to improve the view people have of...

Interview

Northern Energy: fuelling communities for 90 years

...off-setting business to offer our heating oil and LPG customers the opportunity to offset their carbon emissions from the fuel they buy. The business’ own carbon consumption from activities at...

Opinion

Preparing for a new oil world

Boris Ivanov Boris Ivanov, founder of GPB Global Resources discusses how the fuel oil industry can begin to prepare for the new oil world. With BP cutting 10,000 jobs and...

Opinion

OGUK welcomes climate report impetus

...to cut emissions from oil and gas production, currently totalling about 18.5m tonnes a year, to net zero by 2050. This could include the electrification of offshore oil and gas...

Insight

No easy decisions at Whitegate

...support the country’s oil needs is Whitegate. Oil refining on the island of Ireland Originally commissioned in 1959, Whitegate has a distillation capacity of 71,000 bpd. One third of output...

News

Fuel poverty – distributors get together

Helping vulnerable heating oil users – Steve Davis, Midland Fuel Oils and Mark Askew with Tina Costello of Heart of England With the help of the Surviving Winter campaign, the...

News

EOGB hits out at oil’s exclusion from ECO funding

...acknowledge ongoing innovation in the oil heating sector, following proposals to exclude oil from the next round of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme. The proposed changes to ECO, which...

News

Community Buying – The organisers’ view…

...and East Midlands. Owner, Lisa Poole, told FON that there were a number of reasons for setting up the group. In addition to saving rural people money on heating oil,...

News

Bungalow destroyed by tank fire

...houses. With nearly 70% of households in Northern Ireland using oil as their main heating source, householders are advised to ensure fire safety is given due consideration when it comes...

News

UK refining – hunting for answers

...of our refining and downstream oil industry published in November 2011, Brian Worrall, then UKPIA president, said:  “Given the right policy environment, the UK refining and downstream oil sector can...