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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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Distributor diaries – latest updates from our fuel distributor community
...greener energy solutions.” Full story here. East Cork Oil abandons acquisition plans One of Ireland’s largest distributors, East Cork Oil, is not proceeding with its planned acquisition of Kerry- based...
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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...
Opinion
MPs urged to back affordable green heating campaign for oil heated homes
...oil heating. Under its current plans, Labour is focused on encouraging households to switch to heat pumps. However, there are growing concerns that the challenges rural homes reliant on oil...
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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...
Interview
How Phillips 66 is driving the industry evolution to future fuels
...emerged when only vegetable oils (e.g. rapeseed, soybean and corn oil) were used as feedstocks, however, with the advancement in production methods allowing the use of waste fats, oils and...
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Hydrogen (H2.0): a new dawn?
...hydrogen’s global success, as the numerous challenges are being met with diverse technological advances, not in lab experiments, but through different simultaneous market approaches, accelerating the broader adoption across end-markets....
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MP visits first ever fossil-free HVO village, converted in industry trials
...alternative to oil. Thousands of our customers across Cornwall and the South West will have to change their oil-fired heating systems in the not-too-distant future, and that’s why we’re doing...
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Renewable liquid fuel availability report supports home heating oil market use
The UK domestic heating oil market can easily be accommodated within the overall requirement for renewable liquid fuels according to a major new report. The recently published report has found...
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Unprecedented demand creates temporary oil shortage in Ireland
The recent extreme weather has caused a massive surge in demand for home heating oil in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, creating temporary shortages with distributors forced...
Opinion
Suggested $100 oil unlikely given abundance of OPEC capacity
...— combined with a potential drop in supply due to oil companies’ underinvestment — are pushing up some forecasts and prompting calls for an oil supercycle. A significant shortage of...
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Future fuel distributor sponsors conference
...environmental services company Crown Oil. A family-run business with headquarters located in Bury, Greater Manchester, Crown Oil started in 1928 when Harry Greensmith began selling lamp oil door to door...