Interview
A Day in the Life with Graham Slater of Allan Stobart
...to look for you!” He never mentioned it again, apart from in jest, and I learnt a valuable lesson that day – that if somebody is truly sorry then that...
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Insight
A new beginning as Fuel Oil News welcomes UKIFDA’s Downstream
The February issue of Fuel Oil News introduced a brand new section to share the vital communications of industry trade body UKIFDA with the fuel distribution community. You can read...
Interview
Look at the industry through a new employee’s eyes
The July issue of Fuel Oil News contained great examples of the ways in which industry employers have addressed the challenges of recruitment and retention. A focus on this topic...
News
Formula Student to use all sustainable fuels in 2024
Motorsport UK, the governing body for motorsport in the UK, has provided a grant for entrants to use Coryton sustainable fuels in ICE powertrains within the Formula Student competition. The...
Opinion
Massive spring hike in fuel duty would add £5k pa to truck running costs
...as part of the Spring Budget. If implemented, the duty hike would stifle the economy and deliver a body blow to the logistics industry, according to the business group which...
News
Money-saving app launched to counter escalating fuel costs
...card processing systems for major oil companies like Shell.” Fuel Oil News was interested in finding out who was behind the creation of this exciting new service and Nik shared...
Knowledge
Questions remain as alternative fuel payments commence to heating oil users
Earlier this month the government announced the start of alternative fuel payments to domestic and non-domestic users of heating oil but, with end users still raising questions regarding the payment...
Interview
A Day in the Life with Mike Heaton of Certas Energy
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
Preparing for a new oil world
Boris Ivanov Boris Ivanov, founder of GPB Global Resources discusses how the fuel oil industry can begin to prepare for the new oil world. With BP cutting 10,000 jobs and...
Market Report
Prices and predictions – what does 2025 have in store?
...own forecasts for 2024 oil prices. Our headline prediction in Jan ’24 was for oil prices to “trend sideways and stay in the $70-$80 per barrel mark”. Arguably this was...
Insight
Heating future: prospects for kerosene and HVO
...Kerosene: This product heralded the age of the oil industry in the late 19th century when it was sold as lamp oil. The balance of probability is that its use...
News
Slicker Recycling and Castrol take greener approach to used oil management
...oil collection and re-refining back into base oils, helping to keep resources in use for longer. Pilot scheme The initiative, currently running as a pilot, provides Castrol’s automotive and industrial...
Opinion
“Do you agree with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) that the Province should have more oil buying clubs?”
...more oil buying clubs, there will inevitably be more – batten down the hatches!” For further comment see the Value Oils blog – www.valueoils.com/blog/home-heating/heating-oil-buying-groups-2/ Joe Bradley, Bradley Fuels “I don’t...
Opinion
OGUK welcomes climate report impetus
...to cut emissions from oil and gas production, currently totalling about 18.5m tonnes a year, to net zero by 2050. This could include the electrification of offshore oil and gas...
News
Fuel for thought…
...at a European, national and regional level. With over 1.5 million heating oil installations throughout these islands and millions more across Europe, the oil storage tank industry and the oil...
Market Report
Saving Mexico’s state oil giant – a strategy of hope over experience.
...nationalisation of all privately held oil interests in Mexico and for most of the 21st Century, Pemex has been Latin America’s second largest enterprise by annual revenue (Brazil’s state-run oil...
Market Report
Is there method behind OPEC’s apparent madness?
...oil prices are high) were also able to continue extracting oil from fields, that really should no longer be producing. To the Machiavellian minds at the top of the OPEC...
News
Theft threat?
When the price of crude oil rises, reports of oil theft increase. Alex Porter spoke to distributors about the situation in their area A recent article on the Fuel Oil...