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Thames Oil Port – operational in 2013
Greenergy, Vopak and Shell UK completed the acquisition of the former Coryton oil refinery in Essex at the end of last month. It marks the end of a sales process...
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Opinion
Industry alliance leads the way toward zero carbon heating for Ireland
...particularly the case for the heating sector, which has proved difficult to decarbonise due to a high reliance on gas and oil. It is in this context that the Alliance...
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Essar to play key part in regional decarbonisation partnership
...Chester. From 2025, HyNet North West will begin to convert natural gas into low carbon hydrogen at Stanlow Refinery, with carbon dioxide safely captured and stored offshore in the Liverpool...
Opinion
CCUS: why the UK needs it for net zero
...industry, it’s a technology for which the UK has advantages over international rivals. In particular, the North Sea basin, which reached its peak oil production almost 20 years ago, is...
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Major investment at Stanlow
This further investment at Stanlow ‘demonstrates Essar’s commitment to remain invested in the oil and gas sector’ says Essar Oil UK’s non-executive chairman Prashant Ruia Essar Oil UK is planning...
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‘No mean feat’ for Essar
...occupational health and safety at Essar Oil UK’s Stanlow manufacturing complex has been recognised in the 2017 awards given by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) in...
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Sustainable aviation fuel from sewage producer Firefly secures £5m Wizz Air investment
...of fuel to allow qualification to international standards. This in turn will lead to a first-of-a-kind commercial refinery and roll-out to several UK locations where airports, pipeline terminals and wastewater...
Opinion
Report suggests a better future for an energy sector emerging from crisis
...ease in 2023 as major new refinery projects in the Middle East, Africa and Asia become fully operational,” said Alan Gelder vice president, Refining, Chemicals & Oil Markets. “China’s decision...
Opinion
The Community Speaks: How would you summarise 2024?
...positively influencing the future of UK renewable liquid fuels as the futility of “fully electric” alternatives is now a reality. It has been challenging with allocation from the refinery at...
Interview
A Day in the Life…Marcos Matijasevich
Welcome to our feature where people from many different roles in this industry will take you through a typical day in their working life. This month, Fuel Oil News speaks...
Opinion
Addressing the skills shortage in the fuels industry: a critical challenge for the sector
...encompasses a range of activities: chemists, process engineers and others run a refinery or terminal day to day, while loading and delivering fuels also has its own group of specialist...
News
2024 a year to remember
...you or your company to claudia@fueloilnews.co.uk. The Fuel Oil News team Certa and New Era Energy EET Fuels George Eustice Firefly Craggs Energy WCF UKIFDA LCM Enviromental Grangemouth Refinery Mitchell...
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BP tanker drivers strike
This morning more than 40 BP tanker drivers, working out of the Grangemouth oil refinery walked out in a dispute over cuts to pay and pensions. With the walkout scheduled...
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New marine fuel storage underway
...developing the new fuel storage facility where each tank will have a capacity of 5 million litres. A specialist supplier of marine gas oil providing storage, supply, trading and logistics,...
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£1bn investment in hydrogen venture supports Essar future
...a critical investment for Essar in helping it achieve its vision of becoming the UK’s first low carbon refinery and supplying UK markets with the sustainable fuels of the future.”...
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Essar safety milestone raises £3,000 for local hospice
...charity, added; “Many colleagues at the refinery and their families have benefited from the care and support the Hospice offers and it is great that we are able to collectively...
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Another UK energy producer moves to low carbon hydrogen
...Ethylene Plant and assets in the Petroineos Refinery. This will require a new hydrogen distribution network throughout the site and modifications to the existing fuel gas network, all of which...
Analysis
Improving the UK’s fuel supply network
Earlier this year, Oikos Storage and Essar Oil finalised a significant deal to expand the latter’s fuel distribution into the South East of the UK. The agreement leverages Oikos’s strategic...