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NWF Group acquires Northern Energy Oil in £8.3m deal

...years, having started by supplying milk from local farms before expanding into agricultural fuels, heating oil and, most recently, LPG. “Selling our oil business to a larger player who is...

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Further expansion at Inver Energy

...the Atlantic Fuel Supply Company’s oil import terminal at Foynes in the Shannon Estuary Since 2010, Inver Energy has operated through the new Atlantic Fuel Supply Company (AFSC) 82,000m3 oil...

Analysis

BP – making a wholesale commitment

As majors continue to withdraw from the downstream market, Fuel Oil News was keen to quiz BP about its position within the UK’s wholesale market. To this end, FON recently...

Analysis

A year in the wholesale markets

...for the wholesale industry. The international oil market continues to remain backwardated, as it has for the past 18 months. For wholesalers, holding stock in the current climate presents financial...
Ken's Corner

Opinion

Ken’s Corner: A week is a long time…

...heated by oil. How Ireland is heated Source: Census 2022 A significantly higher proportion of oil heated homes are in rural areas compared to all homes in Ireland. 28% of...

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OSS (Hydrodec UK) buys Eco-Oil business

...OSS and Eco-Oil collect and recycle waste oil and workshop hazardous waste together with fuel oil sales. Under the new arrangement both companies will in the short term continue to...

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Oil heating cheaper than mains gas

Jeremy Hawksley – welcome news for the industry and the 1.5 million UK households who use oil for heating Oil is now the cheapest of all the major heating fuels,...

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Oil Care Campaign prepares to celebrate 20 years

...safe disposal and management of oil. A network of oil banks which accept used engine oil for recycling has been established in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Organisers of...

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Changes to oil regulations in Scotland

Are you compliant with the new changes made to Scotland’s oil regulations? The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has contacted Fuel Oil News for assistance in drawing attention to the...

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Kerosene – community buying

...of our residents were living in fuel poverty and couldn’t afford the cost of their oil upfront, so we decided to set up a contract with an oil distributor to...

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Risk reduction for domestic customers

...continue buying their kerosene through Oil Price Protect,” said Chris. “Prior to Oil Price Protect, like most other distributors, we did offer different ways to pay including direct debit. Customers...

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ECO3 – oil is included!

...ECO is to provide affordable warmth and help address fuel poverty, it would have been completely contradictory to exclude the repair or replacement of broken oil appliances when oil heating...

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EOGB announces support for OFTEC strategy

...out extensive testing on HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil), a renewable fuel produced from used cooking oils and vegetable fats as well as from non-food grade vegetable oil fractions. If testing...