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FPS gets ready for winter
The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers has once again launched a campaign to encourage the 1.25m homeowners who use heating oil to be prepared for winter and order heating oil while...
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UKIFDA and OFTEC launch ‘Be Winter Wise’ campaign for heating oil users
...oil supplier to include them in it. The campaign also provides resources for heating oil users who are struggling to pay for their oil, including the Government’s Help For Households...
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Rushing to put the heating on
...Those in Durham (42%) were most likely to turn on their central heating, followed by Carlisle (39%). In Bristol 24% resorted to central heating help, and in Manchester 28%. www.emooil.co.uk...
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Industry professionals debate heating strategies
Heating industry professionals favour ‘a more gradual stepped approach to low carbon heating which would be far more palatable for consumers’ says Jeremy Hawksley According to the results of a...
Opinion
Time to ‘axe the tax’ on renewable liquid heating fuels
...disparity on duty between renewable liquid fuels and fossil fuels when used for home heating. Currently, no duty is applied to kerosene for heating use but renewable liquid fuels for...
Insight
Rapidly changing oil market creates pricing and supply issues
With the price of heating oil more than tripling over the past 6 months and continuing to fluctuate unpredictably, distributors have reported issues with product availability and cost and voiced...
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Associations push for more from strategy
...of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) in oil heated homes over the last 12 months, it is clear renewable liquid fuels have a central role to play. However, we are concerned...
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Oil-fired homes – the clear winners
...existing buildings in the Republic of Ireland. “Oil prices have tumbled once more, making oil heating the cheapest form of home heating regardless of location, type of property and whether...
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MP visits first ever fossil-free HVO village, converted in industry trials
...alternative to oil. Thousands of our customers across Cornwall and the South West will have to change their oil-fired heating systems in the not-too-distant future, and that’s why we’re doing...
Opinion
Free oil? Not today …
...unlikely to have sold any physical oil at negative prices. The oil industry is already absorbing much of the short-term price shock by putting oil into storage, both on land...
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In Conversation with Klass Oil: a class act in energy distribution
...Tom Kirrane in the oil industry for nearly 40 years. Originally setting up Emo Oil, Tom ran Texoil as a joint venture with Chevron until he sold his share in...
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Oil – the cheapest form of heating since July 2014
With the first month of Autumn underway, many customers will be thinking about turning on the heating for the first time in a few months. For those on heating oil,...
Opinion
Industry responds to CCC Sixth Carbon Budget
...UK downstream oil sector reiterates that it wants to work closely with UK governments to deliver the most effective policy and economic frameworks needed to reach net-zero. Downstream oil is...
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Distributor showcases future fuel ready Rayburn that indicates belief in HVO
...immediate reduction in carbon emissions of 88%. The low-carbon fuel, made from certified waste fats and oils, can be used to replace conventional heating oil and has been classified as...
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Theft advice to customers
The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) says domestic oil consumers should be extra vigilant when it comes to safeguarding their oil supply. The FPS recommends heating oil customers take the...
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Raw deal for rural renewables
...using oil for heating and hot water. If an existing oil-fired boiler was replaced with a biomass model then fuel bills would actually rise by £430 per year. Ground source...
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Irish Alliance achieves breakthrough in use of biofuels in decarbonisation
The Alliance for Zero Carbon Heating (TAZCH), which unites Fuels for Ireland, UK & Ireland Fuel Distributors Association (UKIFDA) and the Oil Firing Technical Association (OFTEC, ) has achieved breakthrough...
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Mitchell & Webber: driving the ground breaking campaign for a liquid fuel future
...to be a part of the team, along with every sector within the industry, to investigate low-carbon heating fuels for the future. We were passionate to trial hydrotreated vegetable oil...