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Industry conference highlights include Future Fuels and Future Trucks roundtables as well as theft and recruitment.

News

Speaker line-up announced for leading industry conference

The speaker line-up has been released for the Conference programme at the annual industry show hosted by UKIFDA, the trade association for the liquid fuel industry. The insightful Conference Programme...

Interview

‘More energetic, representative and visible’

...how best to protect and propel the heating oil industry in the coming years. Guy, who has almost 30 years’ experience of the upstream and downstream oil industry, is keen...
Transition talk

Opinion

Transition talk

...together different companies from within the same industry, for example chemicals, to discuss their requirements and concerns. This helps us to better understand the specific needs of each industry and...
Tanker market review

Analysis

Review of the UK & Ireland fuel tanker market 2024

...it to Christmas was a highlight for him! Adrian was particularly proud of winning Tanker of the Year, a significant achievement in the industry and an award he described as...

News

The next generation of fuel distributors

To consider the future of the fuel oil industry, we need to contemplate its past. From a ‘dirty oil’ image to one displaying adaptation, growth and evolution, the changing face...
Michael and Kathleen, Tria Energy

Interview

Tria Energy: leading Ireland’s HVO-first drive

...that reduces harmful gases and CO2 emissions by up to 90%. The industry continues its campaign for increased support for HVO uptake, and Pat Murnane, Group Operations Manager for Tria,...

Opinion

Consequences of IMO 2020

...challenges for shipowners to consider before purchasing bunkers. Concerns about compliance, compatibility, and availability of fuels dominated but they were far from the only challenges the industry faced. A need...
Lynx Fuels

Interview

In conversation with Lynx Fuels

...the future of the business. Life in the fuel industry “I joined the downstream fuel industry over twelve years ago,” Adrian began, explaining his background and how he arrived in...

Opinion

Logistics UK’s Alex Veitch responds to Budget

...furloughing scheme – we need to see greater investment in training programmes to help fill the growing vacancies in the industry. Alex Veitch, general manager of Public Policy at Logistics UK, comments: “Funding...

News

John Alton – 52 years in the lubricants industry

...previously served as vice president for eight years and received the President’s Award from the UKLA in 2008 for his contribution to the lubricants industry. Reflecting on his 52 years...

Insight

HVO: An industry update

...non-fossil origin (HVO) be revoked. The UK has an established FAME production industry, but no UK HVO production industry exists. The TRA’s investigations found that government-subsidised producers in the US...

News

Technology: Supporting the supply chain

There is much being written about the way in which automation technologies can increase efficiency, in terms of both time and cost, in many areas of the industry. In our...

News

INEOS and UK shale gas

...believes that an indigenous shale gas industry would transform UK manufacturing and that the gas can be extracted safely and responsibly. Gary Haywood, CEO INEOS Upstream, says: “Whilst the awarding...