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The Prax Group acquisition, appointments and securitisation

...mineral oil industry in Belgium and Germany. With over 30 years’ extensive operational experience across the oil and refining industries, Luc has contributed to the successful business growth and development...

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Oil NRG expands into East Anglia

Oil NRG – now open for business across East Anglia Independently-owned Oil NRG, which already has a major presence in rural areas from County Durham down to Lincolnshire, has opened...

Opinion

New ECO3 proposal to exclude oil boilers

...but unable to repair or replace an old, faulty or broken boiler with a new oil appliance. Comparable households on mains gas or LPG would continue to have access to...

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A victory for oil heating

...the necessary lead time to implement any product changes. “The proposed penalty for non-modulating domestic oil-fired boilers has also been removed, which was also a significant threat to the oil...

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Father and son sentenced for defrauding oil customers

...occurring. One of the victims of the business was the Barr Hall Residential Home in Portaferry which had become increasingly concerned about its oil usage. “Police examined invoices for oil...

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Growing business in Ireland

In a multimillion-euro deal, Canadian Irving Oil, which owns the Whitegate refinery in Cork, has acquired Top Oil (formerly Tedcastles Oil Products), the brand owned by the Dublin-based Tedcastle Group....

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Additional help for off-grid customers?

...a 3-bedroom home in Great Britain using an oil condensing boiler £793 – compared to £1548 (LPG condensing boiler), £1600 (electricity) and  £1038 (mains gas). With some MPs promoting oil...

Interview

One man and a tanker

Celebrating 20 years in business, Jerry Cosgrave and Leon Byrne beside McConville Oil’s tanker McConville Oil is run by Jerry Cosgrave who took over the business from his father-in-law Dermot...

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A proactive approach in a contango market

...providing an additional 40,000 cubic metres of oil storage. New developments – the installation of mixers/blenders in heated fuel oil and vacuum gas oil (VGO) tanks and radar-based tank gauging...

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Street-Porter backs biogas plant

(l-r) Ian Bainbridge, Janet Street Porter, Adam Warren, Antony Warren, and Jayne Winter, RDPE Area Manager (North East) at the Emerald Biogas AD facility in Newton Aycliffe The north east’s...
Fuel poverty factsheet

Insight

Fuel Poverty Fact Sheet

...poor compared to 12.3% on the gas grid. • The average fuel poverty gap for households off the gas grid was £804, over three times higher than on gas grid...

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INEOS “more or less likely” to move into fracking

...of shale experts, and the company is also busy investing at Grangemouth to handle large quantities of ethane gas derived from shale in North America. “Britain needs gas as part...
Fossil fuel output

Analysis

Lowest fossil fuel generation on record in Europe

...including escalating tensions in the Middle East affecting shipments of liquid nitrogen gas (LNG), an earlier-than-expected stop in Russian gas flows to Austria, and reduced supplies from Norway due to...