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People Moves – December 2024
...has welcomed Saskia Weis as Head of B2B. With over a decade of experience at Shell, Saskia brings to her new role a wealth of knowledge and expertise in strategy,...
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Analysis
Decarbonising transport: are additives the answer?
...has been on better-designed engines and vehicles, or the introduction of hydrogen-powered and electrification vehicles. However, these are costly alternatives that aren’t always efficient. The supply chain incurs carbonisation in...
News
Associations push for more from strategy
In a joint statement issued today UKIFDA and OFTEC welcome support for low-carbon liquid fuels in the newly published Heat and Buildings Strategy but also push for an extension of...
Insight
Managing costs: minimising fleet insurance premiums by reducing claims frequency
...dropped by 78%.2 The success of a fleet risk management strategy is heavily reliant on drivers doing what they can to help achieve the goal. There are two strands to...
News
New Emerging Energy roles support key focus for Phillips 66
...optimisation manager, will now lead strategy and business development for lower carbon products within the marketing group including: renewable fuels, EV charging and hydrogen. Tree, who joins Phillips 66 from...
Opinion
Firth of Forth hub for net zero transition
...development of net zero hubs around the UK has proved a key plank of the country’s strategy towards achieving net zero by 2050. Scotland, which has a 2045 net zero...
News
Oil-fired heating – time to back the most cost-effective option
...changes will be crucial to the success of any strategy. Without this vital part of the jigsaw, there is a risk that decarbonisation targets simply won’t be met.” “Our strategy...
News
Prax group enters North Sea market with successful acquisition of Hurricane Energy
...long-term growth strategy’. After a court sanction of the deal, which valued Hurricane at £250m, was granted, the directors of the company, with a 100 per cent operated interest in...
Opinion
Biomass Strategy acknowledges off-grid challenges and role for HVO
The Government’s Biomass Strategy delivers a greater acknowledgement of the unique challenges facing rural off-grid homeowners but a frustrating lack of detail. Recognising renewable liquid fuels as a pathway to...
Analysis
ACTION – changing health & safety culture from the ground up
...tasked with delivering a cultural shift in the company’s own approach and chats here with Margaret Major, managing editor of Fuel Oil News about the exciting new strategy that has...
Insight
FETSA calls for overhaul of energy security strategy
...or rationing that bring economic and social hardship. What FETSA is proposing FETSA recommends a ten-point roadmap aimed at modernising and regionalising the EU’s energy security strategy: Product mix expansion:...
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Exolum’s new solar PV plant will supply clean energy for Misterton fuel terminal
...Skinsley as a representative of the MOD’s Operational Energy Authority. Sustainability strategy The plant supports Exolum’s sustainability strategy, which aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 53% by 2030 and achieve...
Insight
Heating future: prospects for kerosene and HVO
...hydrogen Government Heat and Buildings Strategy (2021): This long-awaited document contains a ‘ten-point plan ambition’, one of which is ‘to start by phasing out the installation of fossil fuel heating...
Opinion
OGUK welcomes climate report impetus
...take North Sea natural gas and reform it into clean burning hydrogen. The CO2 emissions created by generating the hydrogen will be buried in rocks under the North Sea. Decarbonising...
News
Workforce investment essential to Essar’s low carbon future
...future, EOUK recently announced the formation of Vertex Hydrogen Limited. The joint venture to develop the UK’s largest hydrogen hub at the Stanlow manufacturing complex is seen as a path...
Opinion
Carbon capture cluster projects essential to net zero 2050
...UK’s offshore oil and gas industry said the combination of carbon capture and hydrogen technologies are essential to ensuring the UK drives down its emissions, whilst providing the power needed...
Opinion
More carbon capture cluster projects needed
...hydrogen are critical in helping the UK get to net zero. Later this week (Thursday 21 October), OGUK will release its Energy Transition Outlook report that will outline the UK’s...
Opinion
Like-for-like comparisons key to investment in future marine fuels
...LNG). A common route to zero emissions All alternative fuels share a common decarbonisation pathway, starting at fossil-based versions and ending at low and zero-emission hydrogen-based, synthetic fuels. These synthetic...