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August update
...fuel? At present, the EU as a whole imports roughly one million tonnes of jet fuel per month from the Persian Gulf and North Africa, with imports nudging two million...
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April 2024 – latest updates from our distributor community
...will happily go out and complete emergency fuel deliveries for customers in need. Darrell said: “I did my Ranger training last year in preparation for the busy winter season. It’s...
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Building the Morris Lubricants brand
...the Morris brand, has spent the past nine years working as marketing manager for Hartman Outdoor Products in Telford. Prior to that, she ran Wofi Lighting in Bridgnorth, a lighting...
Interview
The battle to offer a competitive product
...heating season, is putting pressure on the sector, as people use their central heating as a last resort. “People are burning turf or whatever fuel they can and supplementing this...
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Essar invests £360 million in Stanlow carbon capture facility
...Cracking units, located at the Stanlow refinery. The gas will be permanently sequestered into depleted gas fields under the sea in Liverpool Bay, as part of the HyNet cluster infrastructure...
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Transforming Grangemouth
...56 metres in diameter and 44 metres high, is designed to hold over 60,000 cubic metres of ethane brought from the US to replace declining North Sea supply. “This is...
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Certas Energy and Peel Ports to open new HGV refuelling site
...and filtration systems will ensure the best service offering at all times. Located at the main entrance to the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal and adjacent to the new Liverpool2 deep-water...
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Strengths and weaknesses of Scotland’s Grangemouth refinery
...of assets backed up by excellent servicing where small steps towards efficiency make a difference. Previously Grangemouth had been supported by BP’s upstream revenue, (linked to the North Sea) and...
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Standard Fuel Oils acquires Solo Petroleum to expand fuel distribution reach
...Nick Goodwin, Managing Director of Standard Fuel Oils, expressing his enthusiasm at the integration which he describes as “a strategic step forward in our physical fuel supply in the North...
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Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery selected for the next phase of CCUS sequencing
...the Prax Group’s decarbonisation ambitions, facilitated by connection to CO2 pipelines and storage under the North Sea. In addition, these technologies will provide an opportunity for nationally important energy infrastructure...
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OGIC – supporting innovation in oil & gas
...already having an impact on accelerating new technologies to support the North Sea oil and gas industry. OGIC’s official launch in Aberdeen revealed that it now has its first projects...
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Mazda establishes race circuit benchmarks using fossil-free sustainable fuel
...Scotland and Kirkistown in Northern Ireland across a week in which the car also drove 1000-miles around the UK from circuit to circuit on sustainable petrol. The second generation Coryton...
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Suttons invests in UK road tanker business
(l-r)) Joe Roddy, Volvo’s network truck sales director North & Ireland with Michael Cundy, MD, Suttons Tankers and John Sutton, CEO, Suttons Group Suttons Group is investing more than £17m...
Opinion
Record profits for big energy companies increase calls for environmental legislation
...oil and gas companies’ recent high profits was discounted by 91% if the companies evidenced substantial re-investment in new oil and gas extraction projects in the North Sea. “How beneficial...
Market Report
Prices and predictions – what does 2025 have in store?
...“Dark Fleet” (we reported on this subject back in July 2023). This resulted in the immediate mid-sea anchoring (i.e., stopping before arriving at the port of discharge) of around 65...
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Father and son sentenced for defrauding oil customers
...Hall daily to establish if, at the time of the next oil delivery, there was anything suspicious. “After a period of monitoring as well as follow-up searches at the company...
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Energy company partnership to develop offshore renewable green hydrogen in a UK first
...collaborate on a pilot green hydrogen production site in the Southern North Sea. The partnership is a large-scale one with Martin Scargill, managing director of Centrica Storage declaring that “hydrogen...
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Essar agrees landmark aviation fuel supply deal with Liverpool airport
...fuels, is one of the largest producers of jet fuel in the UK and plays a vital role in the North West’s aviation industry, whilst Liverpool John Lennon Airport is...