News
Streamlining the UK’s downstream infrastructure
...being falling market demand following the oil price rise in the aftermath of the first ‘oil shock’ which followed the October 1973 Yom Kippur conflict in the Middle East. Further...
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Analysis
An industry acquiring
...us more about the recent acquisitions of Jones Oil and Campus Oils Daire Keating, managing director cards, Austria & Ireland, DCC Retail & Oil, said: “We are very excited about...
Insight
An industry acquiring
...businesses to acquire this year. Telling us more about the recent acquisitions of Jones Oil and Campus Oils Daire Keating, managing director cards, Austria & Ireland, DCC Retail & Oil,...
News
Oil price recovery and staycations fuel growth for J.R. Rix & Sons
...in the previous year. The revenue growth was driven by a combination of increased volumes and market share (up 11 percent) and the year-on-year underlying oil price increase (up 68...
Insight
UK Downstream: the changing landscape
...‘winds of change’. This saw the disappearance of long-established names, as integrated refining and marketing companies, such as Burmah, Mobil, Gulf Oil, Petrofina and Elf (the last two being acquired...
News
Chandlers Oil & Gas – Playing to our strengths
...an oil major with staff on the corporate career ladder – seemingly inexperienced in marketing and sales and with no practical understanding of how the market operates – it led...
News
Oil NRG expands into East Anglia
Oil NRG – now open for business across East Anglia Independently-owned Oil NRG, which already has a major presence in rural areas from County Durham down to Lincolnshire, has opened...
Opinion
New ECO3 proposal to exclude oil boilers
“The fact that fuel poverty levels are already higher in rural locations makes government proposals to omit oil boilers from the next round of ECO even more nonsensical,” says OFTEC...
News
A victory for oil heating
...the necessary lead time to implement any product changes. “The proposed penalty for non-modulating domestic oil-fired boilers has also been removed, which was also a significant threat to the oil...
News
Father and son sentenced for defrauding oil customers
...occurring. One of the victims of the business was the Barr Hall Residential Home in Portaferry which had become increasingly concerned about its oil usage. “Police examined invoices for oil...
News
Growing business in Ireland
In a multimillion-euro deal, Canadian Irving Oil, which owns the Whitegate refinery in Cork, has acquired Top Oil (formerly Tedcastles Oil Products), the brand owned by the Dublin-based Tedcastle Group....
News
Additional help for off-grid customers?
...lowest quote, as some of these high prices are just not feasible.” A copy of the Best Practice guide to Oil Buying Groups is available on the Oilsave website www.oilsave.org.uk...
Interview
One man and a tanker
Celebrating 20 years in business, Jerry Cosgrave and Leon Byrne beside McConville Oil’s tanker McConville Oil is run by Jerry Cosgrave who took over the business from his father-in-law Dermot...
News
The UK’s downstream oil industry brings major economic benefits
...of the UK downstream oil sector report is available at http://www.ukpia.com/publications or in hard copy on request from the UKPIA press office. UKPIA represents eight oil refining and marketing companies that...
Interview
Donegal distributor gets lucky
...writes Irish correspondent, Aine Faherty. “All markets are contracting but we’re maintaining our own and growing market share where we can,” says Arthur McMahon, managing director of the Letterkenny-based Donegal...
Interview
35 years of tanker loading and process metering solutions
...oil distribution market with the first unit sold in 1993-94.” The people behind the name IFC Inflow is jointly run by operations director, Kiran Shaw, and technical director, Greg Clarke...
Interview
Carbery Plastics celebrates 45 years of storage tank success
...across Ireland and made its first inroads into the British market. Growth in emerging markets The 1990s saw Carbery go from strength to strength, with further investments in new technology...
News
QM Recycled Energy unveils new HQ
...plastic in lieu of using feedstocks from fossil fuels. Tim StClair-Pearce, QMRE CEO, said: “This is a highly significant chapter in the development of QMRE’s nationwide network of plastic waste-2-oil...