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Compulsory oil stocking obligations: a UK update

...international requirements to maintain the requisite minimum levels of oil stocks to mitigate any supply crisis. These were: EU obligations Under EU Oil Stocking Directive 2009/119/EC, members are required to...
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Analysis

Energy Resilience – Is the UK facing a crisis?

...had 6 operating oil refineries, all under all or part foreign ownership, other than the Prax Group owned Lindsey Oil refinery based on Humberside. As of today, only five remain,...

News

Oil price rises over $70 a barrel

...the economic revival will be soon coupled with oil demand recovery,” said Tamas Varga, an analyst at PVM oil brokerage in London. He cautioned, however, that the recovery still faced...

Opinion

Highs and lows of the oil price drop

...fuelled by heating oil. As the first wave of the Coronavirus spread across the globe, forcing the majority of the world into lockdown, the demand for fuel fell off a...

News

Could heating oil prices be frozen?

...rising demand for refined oil products. Indeed, the same report pointed out that the UK depends on imports for 44% of its heating oil requirements. A fact that vividly illustrates...

News

UK refining – hunting for answers

...by 2035, the International Energy Agency expects 80% of EU transport fuel demand to still be met from oil derivatives with most demand met by ordinary fuels particularly for the...

News

Portland Market Report – oil prices

...Coronavirus has hit oil (and stock) markets like a whirlwind and all at a rather inconvenient time for the global oil industry. We discussed the impact on demand last month,...

News

With a little help from our friends and family

...Fuel Oils told Fuel Oil News editor, Jane Hughes. One of the newest entrants into fuel oil distribution, Standard Fuel Oils is based in Merseyside. Twenty-eight year old Nick has...
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Interview

A new chapter for Craggs Energy and Moorland Fuels

...the communities we operate in, we can’t truly grow.” How is fuel demand changing? “The perception of domestic demand is that it is slowly declining as more homes look at...

Insight

Transition in action – Prepare for a dual-fuel future

...future of mixed energy systems. Liquid fuel demand: A longer than expected tail Only a few years ago, Ramsay expected petrol and diesel demand to start dipping significantly by the...

Insight

The changing world of the oil trader

...mt, which exceeds the combined inland oil demand of Germany, France and Italy. Looked at from another perspective, it represents almost four times the UK’s 2012 inland oil consumption! Tougher...

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...