Interview
Celebrating 50 golden years of Peak Oil
...Claudia Weeks, content writer for Fuel Oil News, spoke with Tom about the history of Peak Oil and what makes it such a special family run business. The history of...
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Interview
In Conversation with The Oil Lady
The Oil Lady is a fuel distribution business based in little Yeldham, Essex. It was founded in 2015, by Sheila Considine. Claudia Weeks, Content Lead for Fuel Oil News, spoke...
News
September 14 update
...North Sea oil had just been discovered and the slogan “it’s our oil” began to get traction. Back in October 2013, we looked at the downstream oil industry in Scotland...
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Simon – investing in our infrastructure
...since shipping moved from coal to oil. Government sponsored Navy oiling stations around the world provided physical impetus for the change from coal to oil burning ships of the line...
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Why are new UK oil fields essential to a sustainable future?
...oil needed to make good those production gaps cost the nation about £7 billion net – around £250 per household. Maintenance not expansion “Why, though, do we need new oil...
Insight
A “changing of the guard” in the UK fuel marking regime
...of butoxybenzene per litre of energy product. In summary, the required markers for each fuel type in the UK from 18 January 2024 are: 1. Gas oil/biodiesel/gas oil bioblend/light oil...
Insight
The downstream oil market landscape of Ireland in the 2020s
...Oil. In 2018, Irving Oil acquired large independent, Tedcastle Oil Products (TOP), providing it with a distribution terminal in Dublin as well as a substantially expanded market reach. The refinery...
Opinion
New UK oil essential for low carbon future
...new oil and gas fields on top of the ones we’ve already got? This is down to geology – the UK is blessed with lots of oil and gas, but...
Insight
Security of oil supply in the fuel distribution sector
...of Russia’s role in the petroleum industry as the world’s second-largest crude oil producer and largest exporter of refined oil products. Closer to home, Russia supplies about 30% of Europe’s...
Opinion
Free oil? Not today …
...unlikely to have sold any physical oil at negative prices. The oil industry is already absorbing much of the short-term price shock by putting oil into storage, both on land...
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With a little help from our friends and family
...Fuel Oils told Fuel Oil News editor, Jane Hughes. One of the newest entrants into fuel oil distribution, Standard Fuel Oils is based in Merseyside. Twenty-eight year old Nick has...
Opinion
North Sea oil and gas must address challenges to mitigate energy crises
...of economic turmoil and political chaos. The short- lived Truss government’s plan to announce over 100 new North Sea oil and gas licenses is entirely incompatible with decarbonization targets. Those...
Interview
Value Oils: leader in online fuel distribution
...Major, Fuel Oil News editor spoke with Donall, managing director, and Andrew Higgins, marketing manager, to find out more about the move to online fuel marketing. Andrew begins the story:...
Interview
CDS: 50 years of powering customer success
CDS has been delivering innovative software, technical support, and customer service to the downstream oil and LPG industries for 50 years. Claudia Weeks, content editor for Fuel Oil News, visited...
Interview
TEC: driving forward through innovation
...also developed two new oil reeling hoses specifically for the oil distribution industry – TECOIL and FUELTEC. FUELTEC is now a market leader and TECOIL entered the market in mid-2022...
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A lubricants package that delivers
...staff training. “For the first time in over 7 years of wholesaling other brand engine oils we can finally see profits in small pack engine oil. Previously our oil brands...
Opinion
Solving the industry recruitment challenge
...Technical skills are now needed more than ever The UK oil and gas industry needs to attract 25,000 workers over the next six years, including 4,500 in brand new roles...
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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...