Insight
Key challenges and opportunities facing the fuel distributor
Change and its frequency are a fact of life in modern economies, but the measure of change experienced by the broad downstream oil sector will be greater than that faced...
search | imo-2020
Wholesale Price Movements & Price Totem
Wholesale Price Movements & Price Totem | Feb 2020
News
Switch to biofuels brings huge reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for Peel Ports Group
Peel Ports Group has significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions across its port facilities – cutting them by almost a third since 2020 – as a result of swapping diesels for...
News
Alpeco’s new system already in operation
The end of 2020 saw the culmination of a 3-year development program by Sampi in collaboration with Alpeco Ltd. As a result, Alpeco has announced their brand new TEX FLOW...
Interview
Northern Energy: fuelling communities for 90 years
...director Stuart, his father Howard, from whom he took over the reins in 2020 and Stuart’s Gran, Muriel Illingworth, mother of Howard and daughter of Ralph Robinson, the founder of...
News
John Lewis Partnership steps away from fossil fuels
...head office in Bracknell in December 2020, making it the business’s first on-site gas filling station. It will facilitate the conversion of the Bracknell Waitrose fleet to biomethane and complement...
Interview
Crown Oil – delivering carbon neutrality as it celebrates 75 years
...to help businesses meet increasing emission reduction targets 2020 – We won the Fuel Oil News Tanker of the Year Award for our brand new, first of its kind, HVO...
News
OFTEC calls on new government to be ‘more realistic’
...a whole year the number of installations required each month for DECC to meet its ambitious 2020 carbon reduction targets, says OFTEC which calculates that around 10,800 installations would be...
Analysis
An industry acquiring
Since the first impacts of Covid-19 back in early 2020, we, at Fuel Oil News, have closely followed the sector as it has adapted in the face of increasing challenges....
News
High standards at Prince Petroleum
The Leicestershire-based independent and family-owned distributor, now in its 60th year, has recently been approved for two prestigious accreditations following a project that was first implemented in late 2020. With...
Wholesale Price Movements & Price Totem
Wholesale Price Movements & Price Totem | Jun 2020
News
New report highlights Scotland’s strengths in clean hydrogen
...to becoming a global leader in the emerging clean hydrogen market. Global hydrogen demand in 2020 was 70 million tonnes, and The Hydrogen Council estimates demand could be as high...
Case Study
A BWOC initiative: first aid for mental ill health
...compelled to share it with our teams. Was this the inception of the internal MHFA team? Following our September 2020 course, an official MHFA Team was introduced within the group...
Opinion
Call for 10,000 temporary visas to address driver crisis
...year to June 2020, and only 600 have returned in the past year (by Q2 2021). A gaping hole As Alex Veitch, general manager of Public Policy at Logistics UK...
Wholesale Price Movements & Price Totem
Wholesale Price Movements & Price Totem | May 2020
News
Driver awareness increases demand for hand protection
...With 86% of drivers now actively looking for hand protection, forecourt owners are being advised that failing to provide suitable hand protection could impact business. Conducted in October 2020, the...
Opinion
The billion barrel blow and why it may mean more pivoting in the fuel sector
...in 2020, two words became ubiquitous as the dreadful pandemic ran rampant throughout the globe. The two words were ‘unprecedented’ and ‘pivot’. Unprecedented speaks for itself, but ‘pivot’ needs a...
Opinion
UKIFDA submits views on Scottish Commission’s work plan
Ahead of the set-up of Consumer Scotland in late 2021, UKIFDA has submitted its views on the Scottish Government consultation on the Energy Consumers Commission’s first work plan covering 2020-2021....