Opinion
Deloitte statement further highlights Stanlow concerns
...Essar Oil UK. It has been reported that dividends and loans were siphoned out of Essar Oil UK in the period leading up to the company’s participation in the government’s...
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News
New appointment at Phillips 66
Renee Semiz will assume the position of managing director, UK marketing, Phillips 66 Limited in January 2021. Renee relocates to the UK from Phillips 66’s Houston office in the USA...
Insight
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...
Analysis
Analysing the driver recruitment market: Noz Miah of Aim Recruit
...Claudia asked Noz for his thoughts on the current market for driver recruitment: “The market continues its recovery from the turbulence of the past 24-36 months, which has significantly reshaped...
Opinion
Energy security and emission reduction: the role of downstream
...to the European market with a strong import and export infrastructure. And we have a huge amount of transferable expertise from both upstream and downstream oil sectors to support key...
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...
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...
Opinion
INEOS warns that “Britain is squandering energy independence” as it marks 50 years of the Forties Pipeline System.
...Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 3 November 1975, the Forties Pipeline transformed the UK’s energy landscape. It took Britain from being almost entirely dependent on imported oil to becoming...
Interview
Next generation joins family-owned fuel distributor
...had Nolan Oils overalls, but in order to get our Nolan Oils badge we had to steer the lorry around the yard whilst sat on our father’s lap. Luke at...
News
Essar staff offered £30,000 “leaver incentive” package
...and community for Essar Oil (UK) Ltd. In a statement explaining the move, Mr Cotton said: “Essar Oil UK announced in February our intention to increase the production of higher...
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...
Interview
In conversation with Jonathan Pinnock of JPS Fuels
...market is in decline.” Part of the decline, he believes, comes from fuel conversions, reducing domestic oil use over time, and while future fuels hold promise, he remains cautious about...
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
Simon provides specialist storage and water separation services
...permitted EWC (European Waste Catalogue) codes. In the face of finite global oil supplies, the market for collecting and recycling waste oil from sources such as the maritime and automotive...