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Vintage year of success for Millers Oils
...power increases up to 5.6 percent, and when the nanotechnology oil was tested against a competitor’s oil, Nanodrive recorded 33% lower friction. Application of the technology to road car oils...
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Why Canada’s environmental zealot will happily leverage the country’s oil to avoid financial havoc
...do the US refiners not want US crude, the reality is that the world is one big oil market, so if Canadian oil stops flowing south, it will simply be...
Insight
Free advice for Welsh businesses in preparation for March 2020 deadline
...Pollution (Oil Storage, Wales) Regulations 2016 require any above ground oil tank over 200 litres to be provided with 110% secondary containment by April 2020. Also known as the Oil...
Interview
Preparing for oil off Ireland
...the oil industry producing talented individuals who are specifically trained to further strengthen the oil industry. Worldwide it can be hard to attract people to oil and gas exploration. With...
News
A lubricants package that delivers
...staff training. “For the first time in over 7 years of wholesaling other brand engine oils we can finally see profits in small pack engine oil. Previously our oil brands...
Interview
ESL Fuels: working with customers to deliver sustainable fuel solutions
...fuels best suited to end applications. From the early days of pioneering biodiesel, to creating market-changing heating and marine gas oils, ESL has consistently led innovation in the industry. In...
Insight
Compulsory oil stocking obligations: a UK update
...international requirements to maintain the requisite minimum levels of oil stocks to mitigate any supply crisis. These were: EU obligations Under EU Oil Stocking Directive 2009/119/EC, members are required to...
Opinion
Crude falls below $100/bbl as OPEC+ increases output but for how long?
...crude oil stocks of 4.5 million barrels, had an immediate impact on the oil price with crude oil trading lower the morning after the OPEC+ agreement was announced. Falling below...
Insight
Downstream Norway: Leading the way in decarbonisation
...cover these requirements, leaving a modest surplus across all grades. Stockholding obligations Norway imposes emergency stockholding obligations on oil importers and oil producers who imported quantities of oil equal to,...
Analysis
Greenergy – liquid problem solving
...oil price is therefore a concern for all.” The biggest challenge – a declining market Asked about his biggest challenge, Andrew replied: “How to deal with a declining market. For...
Insight
Task force to take action on UK refining and fuel import issues
...sector The review assessed the midstream supply chain – companies supplying fuel to the UK market, especially refiners and importers that operate in the wider downstream oil sector – against...
News
Reap what you sow
...Web Oil.co.uk exhibits at the Cheshire Show in June Growing the business Owned by Nicholl Fuel Oils and UK Fuels and based in Ellesmere Port, Web Oil.co.uk launched just under...
Analysis
Industry cleared again: Irish regulator finds no fault in fuel price surge
...“What we see is that the large wholesale price increases explain effectively all of the retail prices, and that’s across heating oil kerosene, petrol and diesel.” For fuel oil distributors...
Interview
The battle to offer a competitive product
...heat this winter, writes Irish correspondent Aine Faherty Martin Daly, head of sales and marketing at Top Oil says that a succession of shorter winters, coupled with a short home...
Insight
The emergence and growth of Puma Energy
THIS YEAR PUMA ENERGY MADE ITS ENTRANCE INTO THE UK’S BITUMEN AND WHOLESALE MARKETS. WITH A PORTFOLIO THAT SPANS THE FULL SPECTRUM OF THE OIL PRODUCTS MARKET – RETAIL, WHOLESALE,...
Opinion
Preparing for a new oil world
Boris Ivanov Boris Ivanov, founder of GPB Global Resources discusses how the fuel oil industry can begin to prepare for the new oil world. With BP cutting 10,000 jobs and...
News
In Conversation with Klass Oil: a class act in energy distribution
...Tom Kirrane in the oil industry for nearly 40 years. Originally setting up Emo Oil, Tom ran Texoil as a joint venture with Chevron until he sold his share in...
Opinion
“Do you agree with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) that the Province should have more oil buying clubs?”
Donall O’Connor, Value Oils “As Northern Irish oil distributors, we are part of a saturated supply market where consistent pressure on margins exists for all but a few high demand...