Analysis
A deep dive into fuel distribution industry data
...solar and heat pumps. The census shows that the number of oil-heated homes has dropped 3% since the last census. It is likely that many oil-heated homes are in the...
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News
Oil reclamation stepped up on Teesside
The new tank farm at CSG’s Middlesbrough oil reclamation facility “Our plan is to recover substantial quantities of useful lubricating oils, fuels and other hydrocarbon products from waste oils brought...
Insight
What price oil? 2022 in review
Ian Moore, founder and managing director of The Oil Market Journal, takes us through the year, highlighting the main impacts affecting the oil price in 2022. Contained within this article...
News
Unprecedented demand creates temporary oil shortage in Ireland
The recent extreme weather has caused a massive surge in demand for home heating oil in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, creating temporary shortages with distributors forced...
News
Isuzu first for Darch Oil
The new Isuzu vehicle at Darch Oil – supplier of fuels, heating oil and lubricants to customers in Somerset, Dorset, East Devon, South Wiltshire and West Hampshire Independent family-run Darch Oil has...
Case Study
How Lambe Oil enhanced operations through effective supplier partnerships
Lambe Oil, based in Tullamore, Co Offaly, Ireland, has long been a trusted distributor for Top Oil. Operating a fleet of seven trucks – six of which are now equipped...
Interview
Carbery Plastics celebrates 45 years of storage tank success
...At the time, a plastic tank was something of a novelty however Carbery tanks quickly established themselves as an environmentally responsible alternative to old-fashioned steel tanks in Ireland and were...
Opinion
Highs and lows of the oil price drop
...has been warned that 30,000 jobs in the gas and oil sector could be lost, with oil prices falling to their lowest in two decades. But, despite the global crash...
Market Report
The meteoric rise and sudden demise of State Oil
...Oil – the owners of Prax Petroleum, the Lindsey Oil Refinery and various North Sea exploration assets – had gone into Administration. Not too much information is yet available around...
News
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...
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...
Interview
ESL Fuels: working with customers to deliver sustainable fuel solutions
...developed and launched Greenflame renewable heating oil, shortly followed by the launch of Ultra 35, a gas oil alternative for boilers. It was the fossil version that proved to be...
Analysis
Greenergy – liquid problem solving
...response to concerns about climate change. Today, Greenergy supplies fuel to the largest fuel buyers in the UK – supermarkets, oil companies, fuel resellers, bus and commercial fleet users. It...
Market Report
A special Christmas market report from Portland
...for black gold there and then. Lauren Laverne Really. Did you find oil in the garden? Gaz Oil No. Course not. Lauren Laverne Oh. What was the song then? Gaz...
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,...
Interview
In conversation with Prema Energy
...to the Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme. Biofuel oils made from tall oil pitch and later rapeseed oil distillation residue were developed to replace residual fuel oil in these plants at...
News
New fuelling site installation from Cameron Forecourt helps council become more efficient
...three-compartment above ground tank for diesel, gas oil and Ad Blue; three new pumps in a security cabinet, and Cameron’s Eclipse web-based fuel management system. Cameron Forecourt also installed aTLS2...
News
BlueStream – “the Adblue storage and management solution”
The BlueStream MultiServ Station from OTS BlueStream tank storage has been launched by Oil Tank Supplies (OTS) as the solution to the storage, dispensing and management of Adblue – used...