Insight
PDP Scheme acts on home heat sector concerns
...This training content is reviewed periodically by SQA via their assessors who are now being asked to feedback any concerns they have. Another major area of focus for the DODF...
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Opinion
Huge decline in North Sea oil flows for INEOS
...prices, pushing yet more people into fuel poverty. The country will need UK gas as a key feedstock for future hydrogen production. It also means that oil and gas revenues will...
News
Avioxx completes design milestone for first-of-a-kind SAF plant
...feedstock and sustainable jet fuel.” An important breakthrough Chris Hancock, CEO of Avioxx, highlighted the significance of the engineering milestone, stating, “This represents an important breakthrough and will give our...
News
Fuel distribution excellence recognised at superb industry event
...evening. Guests were treated to a buzzing drinks reception, fantastic dinner and a very well-received guest speaker – Conor O’Shea, Director of Performance Rugby for the RFU. An already celebratory...
News
Fuel efficiency for HGVs
...timescale and the final report, which was presented to Stephen Hammond MP, minister for transport, has received very positive feedback. According to the recent report, three key areas with the...
News
Avioxx synthetic crude production paves the way to affordable UK SAF
...be produced at scale that deliver price parity with fossils fuels. Unlike conventional SAF technologies, which rely on inefficient processes and expensive feedstocks like used cooking oil, Avioxx suggests their...
News
Phasing out fossil fuel in home heating
...stating: “The deployment of liquid biofuels for off-gas grid heating, like solid biomass, will be limited by constraints on the global availability of sustainable feedstocks. For this reason, government will...
Opinion
Like-for-like comparisons key to investment in future marine fuels
...is also the feedstock for almost all methanol, ammonia and hydrogen production. While LNG offers significant greenhouse gas emissions reduction when used as a marine fuel compared with VLSFO; fossil...
Interview
A Day in the Life with Kelly McLoughlin of Barton Petroleum
...typical day. MY ALARM GOES OFF AT… 5.30am and I always snooze for 5 minutes! THE FIRST THING I DO IS… feed my beautiful Siamese cat – ‘Smokey’. I PREPARE...
News
Live demonstrations at your depot
To book MechTronic’s no-obligation demo, email brad@mechtronic.ltd.uk After positive feedback at this year’s FPS show, MechTronic has commissioned a new van – a mobile showcase – which can now bring...
News
Argent Energy to end production at Scottish biodiesel plant
...nearly half a million tonnes. Post Brexit the inability for the UK to import category 1 tallow – Argent’s main feedstock – from the EU, due to EU regulations. These...
Opinion
FETSA responds to European Commission’s climate recommendation
...energy transition through the adoption of a 90% GHG emissions target in 2040. A welcome recommendation Ravi Bhatiani, Executive Director of FETSA, issued the following comment: “We welcome the European...
Opinion
Logistics operators report escalating costs as fuel prices soar
...the same period a year ago with 40% of respondents saying that costs had climbed by 25% or more. according to the results of Surging costs are feeding through to...
News
Major investment at ExxonMobil jetty
...produced at Fife Ethylene Plant, using feedstock from the North Sea. Located on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth, between Dalgety Bay and Aberdour in Fife, Braefoot Bay...
News
Essar introduces cost efficiency initiatives at Stanlow
...33% gasoline, 57% kerosene and diesel and 3% fuel oil, with crude and feedstock throughput reducing from 75 to 71 million barrels per annum. This is the latest in a...
News
Waste-fuelled car success rallies support for sustainable fuels
...fuel the brief was it had to use genuinely sustainable feedstocks, but just as important was that its performance was comparable to our old racing fossil fuel, which it’s proven...
News
Essar selects tech partner for Stanlow carbon capture facility
...Essar Oil UK has identified most of its technology partners and is ready to progress to the front-end engineering design (“FEED”) phase of the project. Development of the basic engineering...
Insight
The future for tankers
...it may change to reflect the changing face of fuel. Previous feedback strongly suggested that there haven’t been any significant changes for some time as Dave Rowlands, technical services director,...