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The growth of natural gas in Ireland

...market was opened to competition from other suppliers. New market opportunities were opened up in Londonderry, Limavady, Coleraine, Ballymoney, Ballymena, Antrim, Craigavon, Banbridge, Newry and Armagh on completion of the...
Improving the UK’s fuel supply network

Analysis

Improving the UK’s fuel supply network   

...and granting access to the largest market in the country. Essar’s Carlos Rojas and Oikos’s managing director, Arun Sriskanda, sit down with Margaret Major, managing editor of Fuel Oil News...
Fossil fuel output

Analysis

Lowest fossil fuel generation on record in Europe

...key highlights of a new report on the European electricity market from energy data analyst, Montel Analytics. Fossil fuel generation totalled just 131.9TWh across the quarter – the lowest quarterly...

News

Making oil-heated homes more energy efficient

...better insulation and a boiler scrappage scheme “Even though oil prices have plummeted in recent months to a four-year low, fuel poverty is still more likely in oil-heated households,” says...

Insight

Strategic supply from Britain’s largest refinery

...and 22m mt of crude oil, oil products and chemicals per year.  The facility can accommodate coasters or part laden tankers of up to 350,000 (deadweight) DWT. The refinery complex...

News

Happy 40th anniversary

...a flavour of the event look here. And look out for photographs in the January 2018 issue of Fuel Oil News. To share your very latest news with Fuel Oil...

News

Vulnerable rural households hit by discrepancies  

...the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) that oil boilers will not, as initially proposed, be excluded from ECO3 which has now come into effect. However, the inclusion of oil does...

News

UKIFDA challenges Irish government on biofuels

...Of the 686,000 households in Ireland on heating oil just 11% of homes are on oil in Dublin, compared with 76% in Monaghan and 70% in Cavan with the average...

News

Ambitious low carbon investments

The UK Petroleum Industry Association (UKPIA) has welcomed the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) funding towards hydrogen projects at Essar’s Stanlow oil refinery and a renewable hydrogen...

News

Oil boilers – significant sales increase

...promoting the benefits of oil heating to rural households with Oilsave leaflets and flyers. The flyer offers homeowners a booklet about energy efficiency which is available FREE from OFTEC. http://www.oilsave.org.uk/...

Analysis

Products and services for developing fuel depots

...illegal, and potentially hazardous, venting of hydrocarbon emissions into the atmosphere. It was developed as a response to the 2010 Industrial Emission Directive in a bid to help oil and...

News

Industry body backs fuel poverty campaign

...struggling to pay for their heating oil, our members provide a range of schemes, including monthly fuel payment plan options, and encourage people to speak to their local fuel distributor...

News

Choosing a new truck

Founded in 1954 by Arthur McMahon, Donegal Oil remains a family business with the founder’s grandson, also Arthur McMahon, being the present managing director “Since its inception Donegal Oil has...