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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...

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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...

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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...
Driving customer satisfaction through digitalisation

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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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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...
Analysing emissions with Nick Molden - are we getting our facts straight?

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...

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...