Insight
The future for tankers
The January issue of Fuel Oil News magazine looked at the evolution of tanker design and production. Here, we look ahead and consider the future of the tanker and how...
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News
Future fuel ready tanker is Fuel Oil News Tanker of the Year
...title of Fuel Oil News 2021 Tanker of the Year An independent distributor, Kettlewell Fuels has been on the road since 1987, delivering domestic heating oil, agricultural gas oil and...
News
Distributor showcases future fuel ready Rayburn that indicates belief in HVO
...immediate reduction in carbon emissions of 88%. The low-carbon fuel, made from certified waste fats and oils, can be used to replace conventional heating oil and has been classified as...
Insight
Transition talk with Peter Davidson of the Tank Storage Association
...are essential to our daily lives, including transport and heating fuels, chemicals, animal feed and foodstuffs. Terminals also provide greater resilience within the supply chain by ensuring flexibility to meet...
Sponsored
Submëtrika brings easy and economical diesel and Adblue tank monitoring to the UK
Submëtrika is a Spanish technology-based company that develops hardware and software for fuel distributors. Having developed its own economical tank monitoring solution, the company has now entered the UK market...
Case Study
From paper to real-time: How Morgan Fuels streamlined deliveries with Touchstar EPOD
...is clear about the organisation’s strategic focus: “At Morgan Fuels we are passionate about delivering first-class service coupled with an experienced support team and market-leading technologies. We are committed to...
Interview
Driving safety forward: inside the NWF Fuels Safety Cup
...with prizes presented to recognise excellence and keep the momentum going. Andy Dobson, Marketing and Communications Executive: Alan Greenhalgh, our Fleet Manager, and I were tasked with creating a competition...
News
Kettlewell Fuels presented with Fuel Oil News Tanker of the Year 2021 award
This year’s industry EXPO provided the perfect opportunity for Fuel Oil News to present the Tanker of the Year 2021 award to Janet and Trevor Kettlewell of Kettlewell Fuels. The...
Opinion
Record profits for big energy companies increase calls for environmental legislation
...wrong incentives Caroline Dennett, safety consultant, believes there is no incentive for Big Oil to contribute to climate and pollution solutions: “Certainly in the UK, the oil and gas majors...
News
Stanlow refinery could be target of Just Stop Oil disruption
...disruption in the area around the site as part of a protest against the oil sector. The group, who calls itself ‘Just Stop Oil’, is ‘a coalition of groups working...
Interview
Raising standards in energy distribution with Standard Fuel Oils
With Standard Fuel Oils having celebrated 10 years in the industry in October last year, we hear from them about the sector they have served over this time to understand...
News
Industry bodies launch up-to-date winter advice for heating oil users
Taking action now to prepare for the winter months is the priority message for home heating oil users from industry bodies UKIFDA and OFTEC. The launch of their ‘Be Winter...
Opinion
Ken’s Corner: Here Comes the Sun?
...the heating oil buying season? I’m not entirely sure. When I first started in this industry, there was a clear bias towards winter sales. However, the recent summer data has...
News
NI oil stocks low due to unexpectedly high demand
...oil available to as many consumers as possible. “The oil industry has asked the Department of Economy since 2016 to look at an emergency storage facility in NI to prevent...
News
DCC to acquire Irish-owned fuel distributor
...can be made until May 18. Jones Oil, founded in 1984 as Jones Distribution, is an entirely Irish-owned company, headquartered in Dublin. It supplies homeheating oil and commercial fuels to...
Opinion
Transitioning from oil to renewables – cost or investment?
...to growth. Neste’s transformation became visible in its brand strategy update in 2015, when Neste Oil became Neste. Since then, the company’s market cap has grown by over 800% according...
News
QMRE takes delivery of second VIXLA plastic waste-2-oil system
...into oil and ultimately back into plastic. For three years QMRE had been operating a smaller version of the plastic waste-2-oil system on a test and development basis at their...
Analysis
Government urged to listen to constituent concerns over home heat decarbonisation choices
...million off gas grid UK households, many of them in rural communities, who rely on heating oil to heat their homes, are facing little choice in their route to decarbonising...