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Chandlers Oil & Gas – Playing to our strengths
Established in 1935, Chandlers Oil & Gas now has six depots – Grantham, Lincoln, Retford, Spilsby, Spalding and Corby. Started 76 years ago by Des Chandler, Tom Caunt and Joe...
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FPS highlights low margins in response to claims of profiteering on heating oil
...“there is something very wrong with the price of heating oil”, and that domestic heating oil suppliers have “allowed themselves to be influenced by very short term greed”. The statement...
Opinion
Logistics UK urges government to maintain fuel duty cut to protect economy
...supplies to enable electric vehicle charging. “As recently as January, government announced an 85% reduction in energy support for business, while average gas and electricity market prices were only 35%...
News
TRA proposes removal of HVO measures
...the removal of the trade measures would mean that HVO could be imported from the US / Canada for use in UK agriculture and transport as well as in oil-fired...
Insight
Ken Cronin on DESNZ: Looking beyond the name
...While energy prices have undoubtedly been higher than in previous periods, every day our prices reflect the ups and downs of the market in a transparent manner. Positively, recent consumer...
News
Trend for forecourt closures evens out
...price of oil. The 2015 Retail Marketing Survey is available, priced £100, from the Energy Institute. For more information on the downstream sector, including filling stations and retail fuel prices, visit knowledge.energyinst.org/collections/rms...
Insight
Sector legislation: Government strategy, incentives and progress for heat pumps
In a previous issue of Fuel Oil News (March 2022) we considered the increasing frequency with which core fuel distribution businesses within our community were changing their names and updating...
Insight
SUSTAIN calls for greater support, as survey reveals attitudes to premium pricing for sustainable solutions
...the processes are not scaled to the same level as fossil fuels – which has a 150-year head start! But even at prices which can be three times that of...
News
Discounted fuel with new card
...further towards the solution to getting fixed weekly fuel prices for our members.” www.ftafuel.co.uk *Based against national average pump prices Jan–Dec 2012, with an average weekly volume of 30,000 litres....
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MabaLIVE celebrates first year of success
...Favourable comments “Regular updates and current prices help our business to make the right purchase at the right time,” says Bryan Inkson of Gleaner. “With prices changing all the time,...
Insight
HVO: An industry update
...industry in the UK is currently concentrating on renewable liquid fuels as a replacement for conventional fossil-based heating oil, in particular Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO). The fuel provides an 88%...
Interview
Taking action in Ireland
Being proactive rather than reactive was one of the really strong messages conveyed to an audience of over 60 fuel oil distribution staff who attended last month’s Fuel Oil News...
Interview
Northern Energy: fuelling communities for 90 years
With Yorkshire-based Northern Energy celebrating its 90th year in business this year, Fuel Oil News managing editor, Margaret Major, had the pleasure of meeting with three generations of the Illingworth...
News
Oil NRG expands into East Anglia
Oil NRG – now open for business across East Anglia Independently-owned Oil NRG, which already has a major presence in rural areas from County Durham down to Lincolnshire, has opened...
Opinion
New ECO3 proposal to exclude oil boilers
“The fact that fuel poverty levels are already higher in rural locations makes government proposals to omit oil boilers from the next round of ECO even more nonsensical,” says OFTEC...
News
A victory for oil heating
...the necessary lead time to implement any product changes. “The proposed penalty for non-modulating domestic oil-fired boilers has also been removed, which was also a significant threat to the oil...
News
Father and son sentenced for defrauding oil customers
...occurring. One of the victims of the business was the Barr Hall Residential Home in Portaferry which had become increasingly concerned about its oil usage. “Police examined invoices for oil...
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Growing business in Ireland
In a multimillion-euro deal, Canadian Irving Oil, which owns the Whitegate refinery in Cork, has acquired Top Oil (formerly Tedcastles Oil Products), the brand owned by the Dublin-based Tedcastle Group....