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Fuel for thought…
...at a European, national and regional level. With over 1.5 million heating oil installations throughout these islands and millions more across Europe, the oil storage tank industry and the oil...
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Opinion
Longer term impacts of coronavirus on the UK and Ireland’s oil industry
...with the travel arrangements for key workers. Oil and Gas UK has described the descent of the oil price as a “body blow” to the sector and called on “governments”...
Insight
BP Energy Outlook 2022 Edition – the outlook to 2050
...driven by increasing efficiencies and electrification of road transport. Natural declines in existing oil / gas production will necessitate continuing investment in new oil & gas production over the next...
Interview
The battle to offer a competitive product
...Top Oil has invested in its Dublin terminal Tackling low margins Outlining how consumer spending has changed, Martin said heating oil order sizes had reduced to 500 litres and even...
Market Report
The increasing impact of China’s economy on global oil demand
...driver of oil demand growth over the last 20 years. Oil markets have become so reliant on China’s seemingly endless growth The slowdown in global oil consumption is largely the...
Opinion
OMJ anticipates oil market movements
Amidst a global lockdown resulting in less and less demand for oil, the oil market has been in turmoil. Ian Moore, director of the Oil Market Journal (OMJ) shares his...
News
Activists adopt new tactics in oil terminal protests
...a new tactic. Regular action has been taken by Just Stop Oil throughout this year, with several weeks of coordinated protest at oil terminals and other oil infrastructure from April....
Sponsored
Submëtrika brings easy and economical diesel and Adblue tank monitoring to the UK
...emergency orders.” An economical solution TrackGas is a stopper that replaces the tank stopper and sends the tank level to the dealer One of the key attractions of the TrackGas...
News
Essar selects tech partner for Stanlow carbon capture facility
...a producer of low carbon fuels. Deepak Maheshwari, CEO of Essar Oil UK, said: “We are ready to move into the next phase of Essar Oil UK’s decarbonisation strategy. “With...
Interview
DCC on ambitions for Ireland and energy transition
...for Retail & Oil, who joined the company 10 years ago, initially as managing director for oil, then for retail, oil and fuel cards, to understand more about DCC’s goals...
Opinion
The Distributor Debate
...locations. Currently, oil is the most economical solution for off-gas properties. However, oil could face serious competition from technologies such as wood pellet boilers, and air source heat pumps. How...
News
Oil – cheapest home heating fuel by far
...of oil condensing boilers have reached a nine-year high and we’re receiving an increasing number of enquiries from gas safe technicians looking to expand into the oil market. The outlook...
News
Shell has terminated the supply of LPG at UK forecourts
Autogas UK, a joint venture between Shell and LPG supplier Calor, saw more than 250 Shell sites supplying Autogas in the UK, at its peak. More recently, the Autogas UK...
News
OptiMate is the key to MechTronic success in Ireland
...Dundalk Oil, Atlantic Oils and Stewart Oils all placing (and receiving) orders in 2020. Barry Finlay at Dundalk Oil said; “We are delighted to be the first fuel oil operative...
News
Portland Market Report – oil prices
...attractively low oil prices. The two biggest strategic buyers of oil in the world are the oil reserve companies of the USA and China respectively, both of whom are currently...
Analysis
Ambitious EV growth targets raise UK grid concerns but what of the impact on oil demand?
...impacting global oil demand? According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), China’s oil consumption increased by only 180,000 bpd in 2024, less than one-fifth of the growth seen in 2023,...
News
Essar chooses final tech partner for carbon capture facility
Essar Oil UK has announced Elessent Clean Technologies’ BELCO® gas cleaning technology as the final key licensor technology provider for its planned EET Industrial Carbon Capture facility at Stanlow. This...
News
Five new renewable biomethane refuelling stations
...CNG Fuels is renewable and sustainable biomethane approved under the Department for Transport’s Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) scheme. The gas is sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste...