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Fluid Oil – meeting strategic objectives

...Fluid Oil has successfully commissioned its latest Viscositor heavy oil upgrading demonstration reactor. This has replicated and surpassed the work completed on the reactors commissioned at the SINTEF Research Centre...

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Associations push for more from strategy

...of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) in oil heated homes over the last 12 months, it is clear renewable liquid fuels have a central role to play. However, we are concerned...

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Oil-fired heating – time to back the most cost-effective option  

Offering the best decarbonisation solution for oil heated homes, OFTEC says it’s time for government to back low carbon liquid fuels as the most practical, cost-effective solution.   OFTEC’s recently released ‘Industrial Strategy for decarbonising oil heated homes’ underlines...

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Farewell to an editor extraordinaire

...she has also been the editor of Oil Installer, another A&D publication, for 12 years. Jane has been the face and heart of Fuel Oil News for half of the...

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Industry body sees transition as the solution

The leading representative body for the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry, OGUK, has called for the transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions to be at the heart of its...

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Best buy oil boilers 

...an Oil Boiler Best Buy this year.   Last year, according to EUA statistics, Grant oil boilers were the number one selling models in the UK  Grant’s oil-fired condensing boiler range...

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TSA talks competence

...problem of oil fraud. The issue lies in differentiating between the excise duty responsibility of the warehouse keeper and the customer.  Currently, a warehouse receiving imported oil is authored by...

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More debate on industry issues

Many questions arose at last month’s Fuel Oil News Distributor Debate including how the industry should prepare for a potential kerosene shortage.  The short answer to that question from both...

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Getting your vehicles winter ready

...to forget to consider engine oil when it comes to winter readiness, and this can be a major mistake. Oil that is past its recommended change interval, or oil that...
A “changing of the guard” in the UK fuel marking regime

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A “changing of the guard” in the UK fuel marking regime

...of butoxybenzene per litre of energy product. In summary, the required markers for each fuel type in the UK from 18 January 2024 are: 1.           Gas oil/biodiesel/gas oil bioblend/light oil...

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New heating oil website launched

www.heatingoil.co.uk, a new website from GB Oils went live on 1st October.  The website has collaborated with oil boiler maintenance company, Team Energy, to offer oil boiler servicing. Site visitors...

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Oil heating is more competitive

The latest independent figures show oil prices have become more competitive over the last four years.  LPG remains the most expensive fuel for off gas main customers. According to the...

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James Smith 1925 – 2013

...Fuel Oil News back in 1977.  A journalist with family roots in the energy industry, having started Knutsford Oil, he spotted a gap in the industry’s communication channel giving rise...

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Jenson Button promotes ExxonMobil oil

...are unaware of the benefits offered by synthetic engine oils, and almost 50 per cent are not sure why oil is needed in an engine. The track star took time...