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Mistletoe and Wine!
...at some point, we would get a piece of legislation outlining a proposed Renewable Liquid Heating Fuel Obligation – see, Santa is real. We have met some interesting characters across...
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Opinion
OFTEC and UKIFDA response to the British Energy Security Strategy
...energy you don’t use, so this is where the new strategy should have started. “We are particularly concerned about off-gas grid households that use oil heating. The government has stated...
Case Study
Manx Petroleum chooses Touchstar’s Fuelstar software to future proof operations
...which it serves all markets within the Isle of Man community, Manx Petroleum supplies grades of heating oils for home, business and industry. The operation is fully supported by an...
News
Deal could see key hydrogen role for Fawley
...by 2050, including the heating demand of 800,000 homes across the South of England. An increase in the use of hydrogen with carbon capture would help reduce emissions in the...
News
Over 100 companies add signatures of support to industry letter to Secretary of State
...2030, and its commitment to support consumers to decarbonise home heating. Addressing the specific challenges around off-grid homes, the letter highlights the affordable, immediately deliverable, solution developed by the industry,...
Insight
Downstream Norway: Leading the way in decarbonisation
...auto diesel, diesel for construction purposes, light heating oil, kerosene, jet A1, or marine distillates. A maximum of 40% of emergency stocks may comprise crude oil, condensate, or semi-finished products....
News
Call for urgent heat policy intervention
...inefficient heating systems when a simple boiler upgrade could cut their fuel bills by over £300 a year or some 20%. “For too long now Government has recognised the interlinked...
News
Liquid fuel distributors working hard to deliver essential fuels
Liquid fuel distributors working hard to deliver essential heating oil & transport fuel to rural communities in the UK and Ireland The UK and Ireland Fuel Distributors Association (UKIFDA) distributor...
News
Boiler sales exceed expectations
...winter’s heating season which saw a welcome improvement in boiler sales, this positive trend continued into the spring with oil boiler sales up over 23% on the same quarter in...
News
It’s a boy-ler!
...random from all the people who donated. Sue Pennington, consumer brand manager at Worcester, Bosch Group, said: “As a British heating manufacturer with a Royal Warrant, we couldn’t let such...
News
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...
Case Study
Driving customer satisfaction through digitalisation
...and, in 2020, forged a partnership with FoxInsights, European market innovator in remote monitoring intelligence for heating oil, diesel, lubricants, LPG, pellets, and waste oil. The partnership with FoxInsights presented...
News
Theft threat?
...plastic!” “We’ve not seen any evidence that the threat of theft is eroding confidence in oil heating, but it would be wrong to be complacent,” advised Malcolm Farrow, OFTEC marketing...
News
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...
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...
News
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...