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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...
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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...
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Sustainable low carbon liquid fuels: perspectives and prospects
...turn. Renewable diesel / hydrotreated vegetable oil This product is made by hydrogenation and hydrocracking of vegetable oils and animal fats using hydrogen and catalysts at high temperatures and pressures....
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...
Market Report
Prices and predictions – what does 2025 have in store?
...own forecasts for 2024 oil prices. Our headline prediction in Jan ’24 was for oil prices to “trend sideways and stay in the $70-$80 per barrel mark”. Arguably this was...
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
Longer term impacts of coronavirus on the UK and Ireland’s oil industry
...managing director of GPB Global Resources B.V., the broader impacts of coronavirus on the oil industry Plummeting oil prices have had worldwide consequences but have been particularly painful for the...
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...
Opinion
Biomass Strategy acknowledges off-grid challenges and role for HVO
...decarbonise domestic heating and meet net zero targets, the strategy has made disappointingly little progress in delivering detailed analysis of availability and demand. Listening to concerns Recent days have seen...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Recognition for lead on fuel transition
...leading by example and not only has Crown Oil been involved in trialling HVO as a heating fuel since winter 2020 and our Future Fuels initiative, but they are a...
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March 2024 – latest updates from our distributor community
...got in touch with the distributor with an urgent request for fuel and Compass Fuel Oils managed to deliver the heating oil within 2 hours of receiving the initial call!...
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Oil recycling specialist Slicker expands further with Oil Monster acquisition
...with their own carbon cutting and sustainability agenda, re-refining their waste oil back into base oil through our own re-refinery.” “We welcome everyone at Oil Monster into the Slicker family...
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Will YOUR customers “buy oil early” for winter?
Heating oil consumers across the UK are being urged to change their energy habits and order heating oil early before the winter weather arrives. The FPS (Federation of Petroleum Suppliers)...
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Leading industry company celebrates 50 years of innovation
...in oil fired central heating by manufacturing domestic oil storage tanks.” Timing is everything “We started in a cowshed at Churchdown near Cheltenham. The tanks were manufactured in the old...