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Heating oil theft falls
OFTEC registered technicians can assist your customers with advice on the necessary precautions to protect their oil heating assets OFTEC has welcomed research which reveals that heating oil is no...
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Making light work of heavy oil
The V25 Test Rig at the Trondheim, SINTEF Research Institute Using environmentally friendly methods to process crude and dirty oils, Fluid Oil has commissioned its first heavy to light oil...
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Ministers urged to secure future oil refining capacity
...oil refineries in the UK. “We consider the oil industry to be critical to the UK economy. In an increasingly unstable world where new supplies of crude oil will need...
Interview
Negotiating the swings and roundabouts of fuel distribution
...the unpredictable demand. The drum still beats as oil boiler replacement marches on Another threat to distributor businesses is the continued growth of the 20-litre drum market. (See the report...
Interview
Oil v gas
...likens the presence of gas to the new competition posed by the selling of home heating oil on forecourts. The Northern Ireland Oil Federation (NIOF) has little doubt that the...
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Agreement will see UK oil production facility powered by wind
...to create one of the UK’s first oil and gas facilities powered mainly by offshore wind. The deal will deliver the UK’s first Floating Offshore Wind unit manufacturing and assembly...
Interview
CDS: 50 years of powering customer success
CDS has been delivering innovative software, technical support, and customer service to the downstream oil and LPG industries for 50 years. Claudia Weeks, content editor for Fuel Oil News, visited...
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Oilfast extends exciting partnership to support more dreams
...from low-income backgrounds to participate, Oilfast launched the Oilfast Trust Fund to offer two scholarships. The Oilfast Trust Fund: A commitment to equal opportunity James Hughes, Business Development Manager for...
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Thames Oilport – diesel and gasoil supply commences
The next phase of regeneration at Thames OilPort, which recently opened for diesel and gasoil, will enable petrol storage and road supply On Monday (24th April) Greenergy began road-loading of...
Opinion
Consequences of IMO 2020
...Although, the pandemic suppressed demand and subsequently prices, the market is rising again as vaccines are rolled out and demand returns to pre-pandemic levels. At a structural level, the shipping...
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Biofuels – an uncertain future
...a high quality and sustainable biofuel, then demand is strong. Demand is largely driven by legislation although firms are increasingly looking to reduce carbon emissions. For heavy users of transport...
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Aramex UK opens new Aberdeen facility
...Oil Capital of Europe, Aramex UK has strategically chosen Aberdeen as its hub to open a brand-new warehousing facility which will serve new and existing oil and gas customers situated...
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Investors welcome Shell net zero emissions plan
...It comes during a period of immense challenge for the global oil industry, with demand forecast by the IEA to fall 29 percent in April and 9 percent this year...
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Oil Terminal 2019 – Tank farms and oil terminals: operation, modernisation, development
...brings together 350+ delegates from oil and gas trading, storage, and shipping businesses representing refineries, oil terminals, and ports from 25 countries including Russia, the CIS, the Americas, Europe, and...
Opinion
A reliable and secure supply
...acquired the Lindsey Oil Refinery in March of this year. Headquartered in London, this British multinational independent oil refining, trading, storage, distribution and retail conglomerate has gained a well-deserved reputation...
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Bolstering onshore oil and gas
Tony Smith brings over 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas sector to the Peel Gas and Oil team. Peel Gas & Oil, a member of United Kingdom Onshore...
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Great news for oil boilers
Grant Vortex oil boilers continue to hold their position as the No.1 choice in the UK whilst the Worcester Greenstar oil boiler range has obtained Which Best Buy status for...
Insight
The Humber refinery – a key indigenous source of supply
...to seek new sources of crude oil elsewhere. By the end of that decade a consortium, in which Continental Oil was involved, had discovered substantial reserves in Libya. To take...