Interview
Oil clubs, drums, kero pumps and NIOF distributors
...contamination from drips/spillages as it’s poured into the household tank. “Small oil drums are for emergency use only. They should provide a small amount of oil – often in an...
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News
Community Buying – The organisers’ view…
...customers to purchase their oil before December to try and avoid paying an inflated price.” Keith Weller, co-ordinator of the Worcestershire-based Bayton Oil Syndicate agrees: “I get people to buy...
News
Bungalow destroyed by tank fire
...to installing and protecting oil tanks. As well as the human risk, an unprotected oil tank can cause substantial damage to property if set alight. Government statistics estimate the average...
News
A good infrastructure?
...Climate Change (DECC), three separate reports on the subject have been undertaken by WoodMackenzie, Deloitte, and Purvin & Gertz. v UKdownstream oil infrastructure v Downstream oil – short term resilience and...
News
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...
News
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...
News
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...
Market Report
When the tide won’t turn: Markets surging past the pull of policy
...the US economy. There would be a doubling down on oil, gas and coal production, whilst at the same time, renewables would be shunned. One year on then, how much...
Interview
Northern Energy: fuelling communities for 90 years
...and expanded the business further to a network of depots. “With an increasing demand for agricultural oil, Esso was looking for a partner in the area and approached us, in...
Interview
Essar Oil UK Ltd: from manufacturing complex to energy park
...future. Margaret Major, managing editor of Fuel Oil news and Claudia Weeks, content editor, met with Carlos Rojas, head of commercial at Essar, and Michelle Lewis, corporate affairs director, to...
Interview
In conversation with Jonathan Pinnock of JPS Fuels
...some commercial customers and farmers who represent around 20% of the total business which he says is “very good for the summer when heating oil demand falls off”. “I don’t...
Opinion
Can hydrogen deliver? Industry leaders weigh in on costs, policy, and progress
...a Senior Consultant in S&P Global – Oil Markets and Downstream (OMDC). He has ten years of professional experience working in the Oil and Gas industry, and is based in...
Interview
A better strategy for Irish distributors
...in terms of heating oil – this has been on the horizon for several years. Reduced demand because of coal, turf and wood burners plus, of course, gas is all...
News
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...
News
Oilfast expands South West Scotland network with new Dumfries depot
...oil. The new depot is the latest step in Oilfast’s ongoing investment in regional infrastructure and supply capability. With the newDumfries facility now operational, Oilfast is positioned to deliver improved...
News
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...