Insight
The UK’s refineries: past, present and future
...inland market. Present: Now there are six – the current refinery network Last year, UK refineries supplied about 85% of the country’s inland market requirements. One of the key features...
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Interview
The downstream customer
...oil and there is a premium price to be paid for last minute deliveries!” Sue reflected: “We think that oil distributors would help, but the quicker you want your oil,...
News
Distributor Diaries January 24: the latest updates from our distributor community
...incredibly proud of the level of support shown by the staff here at Crown Oil.” Compass Fuel Oils supports Galloways Society for the Blind Compass Fuel Oils, the Penwortham-based fuel...
Insight
Sustainable low carbon liquid fuels: perspectives and prospects
...turn. Renewable diesel / hydrotreated vegetable oil This product is made by hydrogenation and hydrocracking of vegetable oils and animal fats using hydrogen and catalysts at high temperatures and pressures....
News
Technology: Supporting the supply chain
...customer feedback: “Based on customer feedback, we are developing a remote control which will provide drivers with the full management of the delivery process from the point of delivery. This...
Case Study
QMRE: Transforming plastic waste into sustainable solutions
...securing long-term contracts for their output, whether in the plastics or fuels market. Customers can choose to sell their recycled oil to a major petchem, or plastic manufacturing or supply...
Insight
Strategic supply from Britain’s largest refinery
...Jet A-1 – 11% Fuel oils – 11% Petrochemical feed stocks – 9% LPG – 3% Lube base oils – 3% Bitumen – 1% Other products – 5% Source: UKPIA...
News
Delivering SAF at scale: a sector investing in future production
...oil feedstock at the refinery, and British Airways will add it into the existing pipeline infrastructure which feeds several UK airports including London Heathrow. Using the existing infrastructure to deliver...
News
OPEC+ continues oil production cut in uncertain market
...into effect today, 5 December, in an already churning oil market. Speaking after yesterday’s OPEC+ meeting, Ann-Louise Hittle, vice president, Macro Oils, at Wood Mackenzie, said: “The decision by OPEC+...
Insight
Downstream Norway: Leading the way in decarbonisation
...cover these requirements, leaving a modest surplus across all grades. Stockholding obligations Norway imposes emergency stockholding obligations on oil importers and oil producers who imported quantities of oil equal to,...
News
OMJ expands product range
The Oil Market Journal has greatly expanded its product offering to help clients to future proof their business for the low carbon economy. In addition to providing oil prices, OMJ...
News
High cost and limited feedstock hinder scaling of SAF
High cost and limited feedstock are key hurdles facing the scaling of global sustainable fuel (SAF) production, according to a recent report by Energy Industries Council (EIC) on the global...
News
James Smith 1925 – 2013
...Fuel Oil News back in 1977. A journalist with family roots in the energy industry, having started Knutsford Oil, he spotted a gap in the industry’s communication channel giving rise...
Interview
BoilerJuice: revolutionising operations
BoilerJuice is one of the leading heating oil marketplace websites in the UK. Established in 2004, the company delivers millions of litres of heating oil to thousands of customers every...
News
A good infrastructure?
50 distribution terminals currently serve the UK inland market. An updated wall map will be sent to Fuel Oil News subscribers in early 2013 A dislocation of fuel product supply...
Interview
In profile – Geoff Henderson, wholesale business manager at Phillips 66
...weren’t doing this?) Travel journalist (does lottery winner count?). What’s the best business advice you’ve ever received? Don’t put important tasks off until tomorrow and when you make mistakes, make...
News
Biofuels – an uncertain future
...energy consumption. The company, which is continually developing closer links with feedstock and biofuel suppliers, does not currently use any palm oil products in the manufacture of its biodiesel. Additionally,...
News
Could heating oil prices be frozen?
...impact on the cost of living very sharply into focus Economic and geopolitical factors have interacted with supply and demand issues in the global oil market generating the movement and...