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Additional help for off-grid customers?
...lowest quote, as some of these high prices are just not feasible.” A copy of the Best Practice guide to Oil Buying Groups is available on the Oilsave website www.oilsave.org.uk...
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Interview
Green Fuels: fighting climate change with sewage sludge
...all using the same feed sources, so they are competing which is driving prices up. Basically, used cooking oil in the UK is being fully utilised so any increase in...
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...
Opinion
OGUK welcomes climate report impetus
...to cut emissions from oil and gas production, currently totalling about 18.5m tonnes a year, to net zero by 2050. This could include the electrification of offshore oil and gas...
News
Fuel for thought…
...at a European, national and regional level. With over 1.5 million heating oil installations throughout these islands and millions more across Europe, the oil storage tank industry and the oil...
News
Oil theft – oil industry shows support with donation
...Northern Ireland Oil Federation (NIOF) resulted in Solo Direct offering to give the unit 1,000 litres of oil to help during this difficult time. With £1,000 worth of oil stolen...
News
Theft threat?
When the price of crude oil rises, reports of oil theft increase. Alex Porter spoke to distributors about the situation in their area A recent article on the Fuel Oil...
Insight
No easy decisions at Whitegate
...support the country’s oil needs is Whitegate. Oil refining on the island of Ireland Originally commissioned in 1959, Whitegate has a distillation capacity of 71,000 bpd. One third of output...
News
Government announces increased heating oil payment to be made ‘in the new year’.
...confirms. “Given the highly competitive nature of the heating oil market, many users hold active accounts with multiple heating oil distributors making a fixed payment challenging to deliver without duplication....
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Oil recycling specialist Slicker expands further with Oil Monster acquisition
...with their own carbon cutting and sustainability agenda, re-refining their waste oil back into base oil through our own re-refinery.” “We welcome everyone at Oil Monster into the Slicker family...
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Jardine Motors Group achieves a carbon-cutting, UK first in waste oil management
...used oil through a fully circular waste oil management solution. Through servicing customers’ vehicles at their 50+ sites nationwide, Jardine generates significant volumes of used lubricating oil which is now...
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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...
News
University scientists have developed a greener marine fuel
...up to 500°C to convert them into bio-oil. Solvents were added to the bio-oil, which was then blended with used cooking oil or fat to create the fuel. Dr Abul...
Analysis
What is the direction of travel for the UK energy sector?
...Conservative commitment to keeping the oil and gas windfall tax they introduced as well as the allowances that incentivise investment in North Sea oil and gas. The Conservatives The Conservatives...
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,...
Insight
Association stats show steady progress towards net zero
...tolerance compared to those in America and Asia. Unlike crude, Russian oil products -especially diesel and gas oils – were replaced from a large mix of countries, notably India, Kuwait,...
News
Open to debate in Ireland
l-r From Corrib Oil in Co Galway – Tom Connolly, Gerry Mullen, Matt Stratford, Eamonn Dalton, with Neil Stewart, Stewart Oils, Co Roscommon 70% of distributors who completed the feedback...
News
Family driven
...be a bad reflection on both the business and the acquisition itself.” Now rebranded as Countrywide Oils – part of the family driven solution/part of the Ford Fuels Oils Group...