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Oil boilers – significant sales increase

...promoting the benefits of oil heating to rural households with Oilsave leaflets and flyers. The flyer offers homeowners a booklet about energy efficiency which is available FREE from OFTEC. http://www.oilsave.org.uk/...

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Industry body backs fuel poverty campaign

...struggling to pay for their heating oil, our members provide a range of schemes, including monthly fuel payment plan options, and encourage people to speak to their local fuel distributor...

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Choosing a new truck

Founded in 1954 by Arthur McMahon, Donegal Oil remains a family business with the founder’s grandson, also Arthur McMahon, being the present managing director “Since its inception Donegal Oil has...
Rapid growth for Your NRG with new depot opening

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Rapid growth for Your NRG with new depot opening

UK oil distributor, Your NRG, has opened a new, cutting-edge fuel depot in Halstead, Essex. It’s the 14th depot opened by the independent oil company across the country. “The opening...

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Vital statistics for oil

...rose by £81, compared to 2011   Oil quarterly tables ET 3.1 – 3.7 are available on the DECC section of the gov.uk website at: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-energy-climate-change/series/oil-statistics     Energy Trends...

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Fluid Oil – meeting strategic objectives

...Fluid Oil has successfully commissioned its latest Viscositor heavy oil upgrading demonstration reactor. This has replicated and surpassed the work completed on the reactors commissioned at the SINTEF Research Centre...

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Oil-fired heating – time to back the most cost-effective option  

Offering the best decarbonisation solution for oil heated homes, OFTEC says it’s time for government to back low carbon liquid fuels as the most practical, cost-effective solution.   OFTEC’s recently released ‘Industrial Strategy for decarbonising oil heated homes’ underlines...

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Farewell to an editor extraordinaire

...she has also been the editor of Oil Installer, another A&D publication, for 12 years. Jane has been the face and heart of Fuel Oil News for half of the...

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Best buy oil boilers 

...an Oil Boiler Best Buy this year.   Last year, according to EUA statistics, Grant oil boilers were the number one selling models in the UK  Grant’s oil-fired condensing boiler range...

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TSA talks competence

...problem of oil fraud. The issue lies in differentiating between the excise duty responsibility of the warehouse keeper and the customer.  Currently, a warehouse receiving imported oil is authored by...

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More debate on industry issues

...it’s basically commercial suicide.” How do we overcome the problem of consumers drawing unfair comparisons between different energy markets e.g. oil with gas? ‘Educating the public is key’ responded Mark...

Opinion

Getting your vehicles winter ready

...to forget to consider engine oil when it comes to winter readiness, and this can be a major mistake. Oil that is past its recommended change interval, or oil that...

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New heating oil website launched

www.heatingoil.co.uk, a new website from GB Oils went live on 1st October.  The website has collaborated with oil boiler maintenance company, Team Energy, to offer oil boiler servicing. Site visitors...

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James Smith 1925 – 2013

...Fuel Oil News back in 1977.  A journalist with family roots in the energy industry, having started Knutsford Oil, he spotted a gap in the industry’s communication channel giving rise...