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Making light work of heavy oil
...pipelines without the need for heating or special solvent additives. Around 20% of the world’s known oil reserves are of the heavy type that currently requires expensive solvents or heating...
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Insight
Gas grid and storage facilities in the UK
...are in power generation, accounting for 34%, and in domestic/residential heating at 33%. Gas accounts for about 40% of the fuel used in power generation and 80% of that used...
Opinion
OFTEC urges support for renewable liquid fuels after PM outlines 10-point plan
...will be able to support such high costs through grants or other support mechanisms. Even those that can afford to act may face weeks without heating due to the length...
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Fighting fuel poverty in the Midlands
...Suppliers (FPS) – together with Midlands-based heating oil distributors, AID Fuels, Nolan Oils and Midland Fuel Oil – have been fundraising to help those in fuel poverty and have awarded...
Interview
Morrow Fuels – goes the extra mile
...manufacturing steel oil tanks for the domestic heating market. He saw his natural progression as moving more into the oil market, and bought his first distribution tanker in 1988. As...
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A feeling of insecurity?
...over the last winter have also brought security of supply into renewed focus. The UK’s ability to control the fate of its heating oil price has diminished; something...
Interview
In celebration of Prince Petroleum
...time, the business had expanded into road fuels, home heating oil and agricultural fuels. From the early days a steady flow of business gradually moved onwards and upwards to the...
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Boiler scrappage in next month’s Budget?
...Petroleum Suppliers (FPS), the Heating and Hotwater Industry Council (HHIC) and the UK LPG Association (UKLPG) have written to George Osborne calling for him to introduce an England-wide boiler replacement...
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A product making a marked impact on fuel theft
...to treat 2,000 litres of fuel. Where and when is the product used? Typical applications are white diesel for use in construction equipment, cooling or heating units in road and...
Opinion
Analysing emissions: why clean can be a dirty word
...illegal defeat device. VW confessed to mis-stating emissions for half a million cars – a drop in the ocean in numbers but triggered the question: If VW is cheating in...
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Drop in oil product demand highlighted in industry review
...neither did production. Unsurprisingly, jet fuel production fell the furthest – by 62% – and heating oil production fell the least – by 6%. The only increase seen was in...
Insight
What is the outlook for UK refining?
...to demand, the UK is already at high risk level for diesel and Jet A-1 supply and close to high risk for domestic/heating kerosene. Projected future demand trends and further...
Interview
Stephen Keep, tanker driver: ‘Tanker driving has been his whole world’
...in the Land Rover. My uncle also had a paraffin round a few miles away. In 1970 dad bought a tanker to deliver domestic heating oil and, as a 10-year-old,...
Interview
A unique fuel industry set up for Convery Oils & Convery Engineering
...the pace quickened. The growth was helped by the ever-increasing number of homes switching to oil as their preferred fuel for home heating at this time. In the early days...
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NI oil stocks starting to replenish after high demand saw supplies run low
...“We saw unprecedented demand for home heating oil during August as prices moved lower in the early part of the month and consumers sought to replenish stocks ahead of winter....
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NI oil stocks low due to unexpectedly high demand
David Blevings, spokesperson for NIOF said: “We have seen unprecedented demand for home heating oil during August as prices moved lower in the early part of the month and consumers...
Interview
In conversation with Dave Walmsley: enthusiastic for NWF Fuels expansion
...price saving of shopping around for heating oil should never be that dramatic. We’re all buying from the same people, and we all have similar cost to serve as well...
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Certa Ireland transitions entire fuel distribution fleet from diesel to HVO
...no new carbon into the atmosphere, offers a reduction in carbon emissions by up to 90%. Part of the DCC Energy Group, Certa distributes heating oil from its 22 depots...