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Win an iPad mini 2 with Mabanaft at FPS EXPO 2015
Will you win an iPad mini 2 by guessing the ex-rack price onMabaLIVE for kerosene at Grays at a pre-specified time? Guess the ex-rack price on MabaLIVE for kerosene at...
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Truck cartels – claiming damages
...to claim compensation in court for any loss which they suffered as a result of the higher prices which they had to pay for trucks due to the price fixing,...
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Crown Oil completes acquisition of Star Oil
North West-based Crown Oil has strengthened its brand in the North West after acquiring an £18m-turnover oil supplier. The Greater Manchester company, part of the £420m-turnover Crown Oil family of...
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Distributor Diaries January 24: the latest updates from our distributor community
...incredibly proud of the level of support shown by the staff here at Crown Oil.” Compass Fuel Oils supports Galloways Society for the Blind Compass Fuel Oils, the Penwortham-based fuel...
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Distributor Diaries March 2025 – the latest updates from our distributor community
Oilfast: Proud to continue special partnership Having offered an incredible opportunity to local singers and songwriters, Oilfast, the independent fuel supplier, based in Motherwell, Scotland, has decided to extend its...
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UK refining – hunting for answers
...of our refining and downstream oil industry published in November 2011, Brian Worrall, then UKPIA president, said: “Given the right policy environment, the UK refining and downstream oil sector can...
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Making light work of heavy oil
The V25 Test Rig at the Trondheim, SINTEF Research Institute Using environmentally friendly methods to process crude and dirty oils, Fluid Oil has commissioned its first heavy to light oil...
Market Report
A special Christmas market report from Portland
...price! Lauren Laverne No problem Gaz. It’s Lauren by the way, but not to worry. Let’s have your first record. Gaz Oil First record has to be “Wonderfuel Christmas Time”...
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Oil Terminal 2015 – new multi-billion USD projects
Russian oil companies have rapidly increased exports to post-Soviet record levels as internal demand has declined by a quarter and international oil prices have fallen. Among the companies discussing recent projects...
Case Study
QMRE: Transforming plastic waste into sustainable solutions
...most pressing environmental problems facing society today – how to deal with the millions of tonnes of plastic waste created every year. Margaret Major, Publishing Director for Fuel Oil News,...
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BP to cut 10,000 jobs as virus hits demand for oil
...squarely at the door of the drop in oil prices and the global collapse in demand for oil owing to the coronavirus pandemic as he told staff; “You are already...
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Cheaper heating bills for oil households
...expensive than oil at £1,190 per annum. According to a new report from DECC published last month, the downward trend in oil prices is set to continue over the next...
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Off grid homeowners benefit from low prices
...form of energy is the cheapest right now. The price of oil has continued to fall over the last quarter and the cost of home heating using oil is now...
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Oil-fired homes – the clear winners
...existing buildings in the Republic of Ireland. “Oil prices have tumbled once more, making oil heating the cheapest form of home heating regardless of location, type of property and whether...
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...
Insight
Heating future: prospects for kerosene and HVO
...Kerosene: This product heralded the age of the oil industry in the late 19th century when it was sold as lamp oil. The balance of probability is that its use...
Analysis
Mabanaft – majoring in innovative independence
...storage depots? “Oil majors moving their activities and operations back to more core areas of their business is understandable. Refineries are costly to run, and with the volatility in oil...
Opinion
“Do you agree with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) that the Province should have more oil buying clubs?”
...more oil buying clubs, there will inevitably be more – batten down the hatches!” For further comment see the Value Oils blog – www.valueoils.com/blog/home-heating/heating-oil-buying-groups-2/ Joe Bradley, Bradley Fuels “I don’t...