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...
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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
Essar chooses final tech partner for carbon capture facility
Essar Oil UK has announced Elessent Clean Technologies’ BELCO® gas cleaning technology as the final key licensor technology provider for its planned EET Industrial Carbon Capture facility at Stanlow. This...
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
Warm Homes Plan published: what it means for off-grid heating and the liquid fuel sector
...homes and reduce fuel poverty. While the plan is framed around cutting household energy bills and carbon emissions, it also signals important changes for the wider domestic heating market –...
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
Fuel Oil News at UKIFDA Show 2025
In celebration of an industry that not only enjoys coming together but comes together to good effect, here is the Fuel Oil News team’s experience of the excellent event last...
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...
News
Leading industry company celebrates 50 years of innovation
...in oil fired central heating by manufacturing domestic oil storage tanks.” Timing is everything “We started in a cowshed at Churchdown near Cheltenham. The tanks were manufactured in the old...
News
Estuary Oils stands triumphant at one of the UK’s biggest one-day farming shows
...Estuary Oils stand recognised by the award, Founder and Director of the business Andrew Mould commented: “This is the first time that we have won it at as Estuary Oils,...
News
Terminal operations suspended due to Just Stop Oil protests
Ten facilities across the UK, including major oil terminals, were blocked today by hundreds of climate activists in protests coordinated by the Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion campaign groups...
News
Rod Prowse
...Oil News. Known to a great many in the industry, Rod worked for more than 30 years across the full spectrum of the downstream oil sector, in both the UK...
News
Oil & Gas working together for net zero future theme for SPE Offshore
...and executive vice president of oilfield equipment at Baker Hughes, is leading the 30-strong committee that has developed the 2021 theme: ‘Oil & Gas: Working Together for a Net Zero...
Opinion
OFTEC disappointed with lack of support for HVO in Queen’s speech
...for the UK’s 1.7 million oil heated households. The government’s current policy proposal is that, from 2026, they will no longer be able to install a new fossil fuel oil...
News
New business development manager for Oil and Gas subdivision of adi Group
...the firm as a business development manager for the oil and gas sector, forming a new subdivision of adi Projects. Mo has a solid technical background in engineering as well...