Interview
Ferguson Fuels: family-run, with customers at its heart
...was met by an increase in the need for oil from our customers to fuel their home heating,” he shares. Initially supplying the North West, the demand for heating oil...
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Opinion
“Do you agree with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) that the Province should have more oil buying clubs?”
...more oil buying clubs, there will inevitably be more – batten down the hatches!” For further comment see the Value Oils blog – www.valueoils.com/blog/home-heating/heating-oil-buying-groups-2/ Joe Bradley, Bradley Fuels “I don’t...
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...
Insight
A look at the shape of the future UK downstream oil sector landscape
...July 2019, UKPIA declared a commitment to cease supply of heating oil to properties off the gas grid during the 2020s, when use of liquid fuels for space heating will...
News
Crown Oil – encouraging customers to use cleaner fuels
...being fully interchangeable. “Businesses which rely on fuel should consider alternatives to heating oils, such as carbon offset red diesel; biofuel; clean-burning kerosene; industrial heating oil (IHO) – when 20%...
News
National Grid targets off-grid fuel poverty
...the installation of affordable heating solutions in fuel poor households which don’t use mains gas as their primary source of heat. The £150m from National Grid comes on top of...
Insight
No one likes a ban, but everyone likes an EXPO!
...costly. The maths is, ultimately, very simple. An average kerosene heated home uses c1,800 litres annually (c18,500kWh). At the current price (65ppl), this equates to an annual heating bill of...
News
FPS and The Road to Zero
...the change without undue penalty – and without affecting the economy through an inability to meet the heating oil or red diesel supply needs’ says FPS technical manager, Tony Brown...
News
ESL Fuels develops innovative oil processing technology
...Thornton Science Park. The new and innovative Molexis technology will complement large volume production of diesel, heating oil and marine fuels from sites across the UK. The first production unit...
News
The £50 Energy Savings challenge
...the room at 19°C. Increasing room temperature by only 1°C, can increase heating costs by 10%, whilst reducing temperature by 1°C can save almost £6 per month. · Service your...
News
Additional help for off-grid customers?
To open further discussions between government and industry on the subject of oil heating and oil buying groups, the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) has written to MPs and energy...
Opinion
Wales earmarked to be a global innovation leader in the adoption of hydrogen as aviation fuel
...trucks, heating, and aviation. In this Transition Talk, we will dive into the viability of using hydrogen in aviation. To talk us through this, Anders Lorenzen, writing for Fuel Oil...
News
Combating counterfeit oil level monitors
...manufacturers and installers, heating oil today represents a safe and responsible fuel choice. However, recently the sale of counterfeit oil monitoring equipment on an internet auction website was discovered, with...
Opinion
Ken’s Corner: All change please, all change!
...that a pragmatic approach to decarbonising the 1.7 million homes in the UK that use oil for heating should include replacing kerosene oil with a renewable liquid fuel or blend:...
News
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...
Opinion
The Distributor Debate
...to adopt renewables and numbers of community buying schemes climbing – join in the debate on the future of oil heating. Many industry experts have committed to attending, while others...
Opinion
Ken’s Corner: why change for the sake of change is not the change we need
...renewable liquid heating fuel obligation and pressing the government to get on with the consultation they promised last year. This is our effort to bring positive change while providing consumers...
Interview
An interview with Ken Cronin, CEO UKIFDA
...to build in 2023. In Ireland, we have made progress with the launch of the Alliance for Zero Carbon Heating and the AECOM report. And the frustrations? Without a doubt,...