search | oil-demand

Portland report image

Market Report

The eternal influence of black gold

...oil company) and, instead, is an operating tri-venture between Exxon Mobil (45%), Amerada Hess (30%) and China’s National Offshore Oil Corporation (25%). With little experience in negotiating oil concessions, Guyana’s...

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

Opinion

Preparing for a new oil world

Boris Ivanov Boris Ivanov, founder of GPB Global Resources discusses how the fuel oil industry can begin to prepare for the new oil world. With BP cutting 10,000 jobs and...

News

The shipping news

...High Sulphur Fuel Oil LSFO – Low Sulphur Fuel Oil LSMGO – Low Sulphur Marine Gas Oil IFO – Intermediate Fuel Oil ECUK – East Coast UK ECA – Emission...