Interview
Virgin Atlantic Flight100 – a flying start for future fuels
...SAF, and to act as a call for the support of greater production and use of SAF at scale. Claudia weeks, Community Content Lead for Fuel Oil News, spoke with...
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Interview
A Day in the Life…Helen Rawsthorne
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...
Interview
UM Group: Goals, ambitions and plans for the energy transition
...storage facilities to the food, industrial, feed and energy sectors in the UK. . What is the ambition for the UM Group? The UM Group is a diverse business, with...
News
Fuel and food continue to deliver for NWF
NWF Group plc, specialist distributor of fuel, food and feed across the UK, is reporting strong half yearly results, with a significant contribution from a strong fuels division. Overall results...
News
Industry body sees transition as the solution
The leading representative body for the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry, OGUK, has called for the transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions to be at the heart of its...
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...
Interview
A growing network
...offers. “The last few years have been difficult for oil distributors, volumes have fallen and there are tighter margins,” he told Fuel Oil News. “Distributors have had to adapt to...
News
Investors welcome Shell net zero emissions plan
...significance for the broader energy sector. “It’s imperative we see companies across the entire oil and gas sector put strategies in place to achieve net zero emission if we are...
News
Will liquid fuels be heating homes in 2030?
...the market for oil boilers predominantly in the replacement sector, OFTEC’s strategy is to retain the present oil-fired boiler market share. Using initiatives such as the Oilsave campaign, OFTEC is...
News
Supplying renewable, carbon-neutral biofuels
With a shelf-life of up to 10 years, Crown Oil is backing HVO, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for regular diesel and gas oil with the approval...
News
Cheaper heating bills for oil households
...gas grid homes. According to the Sutherland Tables, a recognised source of data on comparative UK domestic heating prices, the current annual cost of using oil to heat a three...
News
Nicholl Fuel Oils achieves a fuel first
Nicholl Fuel Oils has installed Northern Ireland’s first hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuelling facility at its Carryduff 24-hour forecourt with plans to make this new, renewable biofuel available across all...
Insight
Energy transition: Could a multidisciplinary approach be the key?
The UK Government North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) intends to introduce a new climate compatibility checkpoint before each future oil and gas licensing round to ensure licences awarded are aligned...
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...
News
Which? reports on heating oil prices
...oil users, the guide highlights a number of ways to keep the costs of heating oil down. The Which? news story and heating oil guide can be found at http://www.which.co.uk/energy/creating-an-energy-saving-home/guides/heating-oil/...
News
Is it time Northern Ireland had a competent persons scheme?
...before spreading to an oil tank which ruptured, setting fire to other oil tanks in the near vicinity. Meanwhile, OFTEC is calling on the Northern Ireland government to introduce mandatory...
News
FPS warns of the dangers of making early technology decisions for heating
...early technology decisions and also in only concentrating on a small section of oil-fired homes when industry innovation can help all oil-fired homes.” “We have in the UK set up...
News
Oil reclamation stepped up on Teesside
The new tank farm at CSG’s Middlesbrough oil reclamation facility “Our plan is to recover substantial quantities of useful lubricating oils, fuels and other hydrocarbon products from waste oils brought...