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Marine bunkering – fuel for a vital activity
...oil/ light fuel oil, with maximum density which can range between 0.890 and 0.920 kg/m3 at 15 degrees C Marine gas oil – meets the inland heating oil specification i.e....
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Analysis
Why kerosene surged: Inside the heating oil price shock
...escalated, global oil markets reacted instantly. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz – a critical oil transit route – was disrupted, tanker movements slowed and traders priced in supply risks....
Interview
Value Oils: leader in online fuel distribution
...Oils? “There are many benefits for suppliers selling oil through our website, including: • They are in complete control of the pricing and delivery windows they offer and can easily...
Opinion
Calls for strategic oil and gas measures to safeguard UK energy security and climate progress
The UK Government is being urged to adopt a pragmatic new approach to oil and gas policy to prevent deepening reliance on imports, safeguard critical infrastructure, and support a managed...
News
Oil recycling specialist Slicker expands further with Oil Monster acquisition
...with their own carbon cutting and sustainability agenda, re-refining their waste oil back into base oil through our own re-refinery.” “We welcome everyone at Oil Monster into the Slicker family...
News
Greenergy signs strategic JV agreement with Bapco
...of Bahrain’s energy-related activities; primarily refining, distribution of petroleum products and natural gas, sales and export of crude oil and refined products. The company owns a 260,000 barrel-a-day refinery, storage...
News
Extinction Rebellion blockades ExxonMobil terminal
Climate campaigners known as ‘Extinction Rebellion’ blocked a terminal entrance near to the largest oil refinery in the UK yesterday in protest at the Fawley expansion plans. Activists dressed as...
News
Essar selects Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as technology licensor for carbon capture
Essar Oil UK Limited (EOUK) has completed the selection of a key licensor technology provider and signed a contract for the development of the required basic engineering design package for...
News
Energy minister in Coryton discussions
...options for the refinery were discussed along with the work the administrators are doing to secure a sustainable future for the plant. The minister reiterated government’s commitment to help those...
News
Essar Oil UK – ‘a significantly better year’
“We can now look ahead with renewed confidence,” said chief executive Volker Schultz Last week the owner and operator of the Stanlow Refinery filed financial results for the year ending...
News
Essar to invest £45m in UK’s first hydrogen refinery furnace
...Officer at Essar Oil UK, commented: “We have hugely ambitious plans for Stanlow and are committed to making it the UK’s first low carbon refinery. By affecting a significant and...
News
Major investment at Essar
The installation of the giant new regenerator head will give the refinery unit another 25 years of life Essar Oil (UK) recently completed the successful lift of a giant new...
News
Stanlow’s strong performance
Reducing production of lower margin products such as fuel oil and naphtha, Essar’s Stanlow refinery has increased the yield of high margin products such as gasoline and middle distillates Essar...
News
Grangemouth workforce Unite over government proposals
Workers based at the Grangemouth oil refinery have slated the Scottish and UK governments over their failure to jointly develop proposals which could help protect hundreds of jobs at the...
Insight
What is the outlook for UK refining?
Since the closure of BP’s Belfast plant in 1982, the UK refinery network has undergone continuous shrinkage, from 18 facilities with a total distillation capacity of 132 million tonnes (mt)...
Interview
The downstream customer
...oil and there is a premium price to be paid for last minute deliveries!” Sue reflected: “We think that oil distributors would help, but the quicker you want your oil,...
News
Industry invited to back heating oil tariff removal proposal
Heating oil has been included in a new government consultation examining whether import tariffs on a range of goods should be suspended as part of efforts to support consumers and...
Opinion
Longer term impacts of coronavirus on the UK and Ireland’s oil industry
...a 70,000-bpd crude unit at its Gelsenkirchen oil refinery in Germany on March 18th. Although there have been some closures, most oilrigs, terminals, warehouses, refineries, and logistics facilities have remained...