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Essar appoints Stein Ivar Bye as chief executive officer
The board of Essar Oil UK Ltd has announced the appointment of Stein Ivar Bye, former boss of Sweden’s largest fuel firm, as chief executive officer. Leaving behind his job...
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Geos Group takes over Phillips 66’ marine gas oil deliveries at Blyth
...advantage over other marine gas oil suppliers.” The Geos Group (Sea Bunkering) is a physical supplier and international trader of marine gas oil, with stock in Aberdeen, Blyth, Great Yarmouth,...
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Fluid Oil – meeting strategic objectives
...Fluid Oil has successfully commissioned its latest Viscositor heavy oil upgrading demonstration reactor. This has replicated and surpassed the work completed on the reactors commissioned at the SINTEF Research Centre...
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TSA talks competence
...problem of oil fraud. The issue lies in differentiating between the excise duty responsibility of the warehouse keeper and the customer. Currently, a warehouse receiving imported oil is authored by...
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INEOS completes Forties Pipeline acquisition from BP
...responsibility for a strategic UK asset that delivers almost 40% of the UK’s North Sea oil and gas output, INEOS has further strengthened its long-term oil and gas activity. The...
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Unprecedented demand creates temporary oil shortage in Ireland
The recent extreme weather has caused a massive surge in demand for home heating oil in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, creating temporary shortages with distributors forced...
Opinion
Suggested $100 oil unlikely given abundance of OPEC capacity
...— combined with a potential drop in supply due to oil companies’ underinvestment — are pushing up some forecasts and prompting calls for an oil supercycle. A significant shortage of...
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Future fuel distributor sponsors conference
...environmental services company Crown Oil. A family-run business with headquarters located in Bury, Greater Manchester, Crown Oil started in 1928 when Harry Greensmith began selling lamp oil door to door...
Interview
In conversation with Bedford Fuels Ltd
...Oil Company, until it was sold to Oil NRG Ltd what have you been doing in the interim and why are you keen to come back to the sector now?...
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Distributor diaries September 24: updates from our distributor community
...looks forward to continuing its support of the charity going forward.” Oilfast – proudly celebrating a special partnership Oilfast, the independent fuel supplier based in Motherwell, Scotland, recently offered an...
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Calls for Government support as oil homes switch to fossil-free HVO in numbers
...the Future Ready Fuel campaign. The industry is self-funding the project and is investing over £800,000. Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil, otherwise known as HVO, is derived from used cooking oil and...
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Distributor supports UK-wide initiative to help vulnerable off grid customers
...most vulnerable customers a priority for heating oil deliveries during the colder months. This avoids them running out of heating oil when they need it most and works alongside other...
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Valued liquid fuel distributor client is first recipient of new Oilshield Spill Kit
While out visiting clients, the Oilshield team were delighted to make a special presentation to Nolan Oils. Mark & Luke Nolan of Nolan Oils have been great supporters of the...
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Oil & gas investment key to UK transition
...country’s need for oil and gas declines, demand for oil and gas will still outstrip domestic supply and we will never produce an excess of oil or gas as some...
Opinion
Home heating policies are impacting voting intentions in key rural constituencies
...expected to only cover a small number of the estimated 1.7 million UK homes on oil heating. Alternative solutions for oil homes include renewable liquid fuels such as hydrotreated vegetable...
Interview
Northern Energy: fuelling communities for 90 years
With Yorkshire-based Northern Energy celebrating its 90th year in business this year, Fuel Oil News managing editor, Margaret Major, had the pleasure of meeting with three generations of the Illingworth...
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Oil NRG expands into East Anglia
Oil NRG – now open for business across East Anglia Independently-owned Oil NRG, which already has a major presence in rural areas from County Durham down to Lincolnshire, has opened...
Opinion
New ECO3 proposal to exclude oil boilers
“The fact that fuel poverty levels are already higher in rural locations makes government proposals to omit oil boilers from the next round of ECO even more nonsensical,” says OFTEC...