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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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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...
Ken's Corner

Opinion

Ken’s Corner: A week is a long time…

...heated by oil. How Ireland is heated Source: Census 2022 A significantly higher proportion of oil heated homes are in rural areas compared to all homes in Ireland. 28% of...

Insight

The case for a UK CSO agency

...Downstream Oil Reporting System and for importers in the Oil Stocking System. Additional provisions introduced in 2012 require that for motor spirit, diesel/gasoil and jet kerosene at least 22.5 days...

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OSS (Hydrodec UK) buys Eco-Oil business

...OSS and Eco-Oil collect and recycle waste oil and workshop hazardous waste together with fuel oil sales. Under the new arrangement both companies will in the short term continue to...

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Oil heating cheaper than mains gas

...mains gas households changing to oil, particularly if they need to replace their boiler.” Pie in the sky The reduced price of oil is also expected to further dampen demand...

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...

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Oil Care Campaign prepares to celebrate 20 years

...safe disposal and management of oil. A network of oil banks which accept used engine oil for recycling has been established in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Organisers of...

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Changes to oil regulations in Scotland

Are you compliant with the new changes made to Scotland’s oil regulations? The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has contacted Fuel Oil News for assistance in drawing attention to the...

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Kerosene – community buying

...of our residents were living in fuel poverty and couldn’t afford the cost of their oil upfront, so we decided to set up a contract with an oil distributor to...

Analysis

Mabanaft – majoring in innovative independence

...demands on refineries to produce alternative grades increase.) “Profit margins for oil wholesalers and retailers alike could certainly be better. Mabanaft believes that – compared to its competitors – it...

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Risk reduction for domestic customers

...continue buying their kerosene through Oil Price Protect,” said Chris. “Prior to Oil Price Protect, like most other distributors, we did offer different ways to pay including direct debit. Customers...

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ECO3 – oil is included!

...ECO is to provide affordable warmth and help address fuel poverty, it would have been completely contradictory to exclude the repair or replacement of broken oil appliances when oil heating...

Interview

Morrow Fuels – goes the extra mile

...manufacturing steel oil tanks for the domestic heating market. He saw his natural progression as moving more into the oil market, and bought his first distribution tanker in 1988. As...