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Creating a Taskforce for Liquid Biofuels
...to be taken towards a transition to 100% biofuel to replace heating oil in 1.5m homes across the UK and 686,000 homes across Ireland. The three trade associations will...
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Interview
A better strategy for Irish distributors
Having read January’s Irish column ‘with interest’, a concerned Irish distributor sent the following tongue in cheek comment. We Republic of Ireland (RoI) distributors are currently experiencing something of a bloodbath...
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UKIFDA begins search for CEO
...policy in the UK and Ireland. Having taken on the role in February 2018, and worked tirelessly, in support of the membership, to keep liquid fuels on the future energy...
Interview
A rise and a fall at Maxol
...million euros expanding its all-Ireland service station network and rebranding its image, Irish correspondent Aine Faherty spoke to chief executive, Tom Noonan about the company’s move from loss to profit-making In the...
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Birmingham move for FPS
...have more members than ever so it makes sense to be centrally located. “We’ve also recently enjoyed great success in Ireland where our member numbers are growing strongly together with...
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Dealing with price volatility
...Ireland, Andrew Wilson, sales manager – wholesale and retail, Kelly Fuels reported: “The service is an extremely useful tool in providing us with accurate and timely information on market movements.”...
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INEOS and UK shale gas
...northern England – for which it has bid from DECC, the company would become the biggest player in the UK’s shale gas industry. INEOS is already the owner of two...
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‘Team Stobart’ completes Lake District Trek to raise funds for Alzheimer’s Society
...distributors. A depot near Dalston enables the supplier to deliver across Northern Cumbria and Southern Scotland. Steve Hindmarsh leading the way on a long but beautiful climb. When an opportunity...
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Bolstering onshore oil and gas
...by AMION Consulting. The report Shale Gas – Creating a Supply Hub for the Bowland Shale – found that developing a supply hub in the Bowland Shale could see Northern...
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Crossing the finishing line
...A&A’s group marketing manager, Alan Scrafton. The company’s project manager, Colin Mitchell and his team were responsible for designing and building an efficient, removable fuel station close to the Northern...
Insight
Stanlow celebrates a century of powering Britain
...It will play a major role in accelerating the UK’s low carbon transformation, supporting the Government’s decarbonisation policy and creating highly skilled employment opportunities at the heart of the Northern...
Opinion
OGUK welcomes climate report impetus
...low-carbon technologies. These include: Carbon capture and storage: bp, Eni, Equinor, National Grid, Shell and Total have formed the Northern Endurance Partnership to capture, transport and store millions of tonnes...
News
A good Standard of tanker
...5-compartment tanker, which is mounted on a MAN 6×4 chassis, was constructed by Road Tankers Northern and has been operational for over six months. The vehicle has proved so successful...
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Further expansion for Greenarc with acquisition of electric vehicle supplier KeyFleet
...in the Ribble Valley and currently employs a team of 22 which includes regional relationship managers who are based across the whole UK. KeyFleet will join northern-based Greenarc Ltd which...
Analysis
Fuelling progress: future fuels for transport decarbonisation
...included Northern Gas Networks’ Hydrogen House innovation site – where the UK’s first homes to feature 100% hydrogen gas appliances are sited – Thames Estuary, Equinor’s Hydrogen-to-Humber (H2H) Saltend project,...
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Tasca acquisition fuels further growth
...Maidment facility in Littlehampton. This should bring the well-recognised qualities, that Tasca and Paint Shop Northern are renowned for, to the existing and, hopefully new, customer base in the south...
Opinion
What is the best Christmas present for a fuel distributor?
...illustrated above, when you could have probably taken a tanker down the Thames! As all those above and Northern Energy’s Howard Illingworth says ‘it may seem obvious but a long,...
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Essar Oil UK rebrands on route to become first low carbon process UK refinery
...the government’s decarbonisation policy and creating highly skilled employment opportunities at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse economy. In addition to EET Fuels, EET also includes: EET Hydrogen, which is...