Opinion
New UK oil essential for low carbon future
...oil fields like Cambo, says Katy Heidenreich, operations director at Oil & Gas UK (OGUK). Katy shares her thoughts with us: “Shell’s decision to suspend its involvement in Cambo, the...
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News
Clever chemistry fuels business
...forward Having set out to develop a ‘robust and flexible business model around low grade waste vegetable oils’, RGM Fuels (see page 6 Fuel Oil News July) is now in...
News
Biofuels – an uncertain future
...energy consumption. The company, which is continually developing closer links with feedstock and biofuel suppliers, does not currently use any palm oil products in the manufacture of its biodiesel. Additionally,...
Insight
The Humber refinery – a key indigenous source of supply
...and distribution Petrol @ 32% Diesel/Gasoil @ 44% Kerosene/ Jet A-1 @ 8% Petroleum coke @ 6% Fuel oil @ 4% Petrochemical feed stocks @ 4% LPG @ 2% (Source:...
News
Risk reduction for domestic customers
...continue buying their kerosene through Oil Price Protect,” said Chris. “Prior to Oil Price Protect, like most other distributors, we did offer different ways to pay including direct debit. Customers...
News
Heating oil’s future – making a difference
“Oil is the cheapest option for off grid homes and has been since October 2014,” says FPS chief executive Guy Pulham. The FPS is urging all those using oil to...
Interview
BoilerJuice: revolutionising operations
BoilerJuice is one of the leading heating oil marketplace websites in the UK. Established in 2004, the company delivers millions of litres of heating oil to thousands of customers every...
Insight
What price oil? 2023 In review
In association with The Oil Market Journal Pictured below and included in the January issue of Fuel Oil News is a graph that shows the price of ultra-low sulfur diesel...
News
Getting warmer in the community
...tenants. In return CBL has developed a community oil fund that purchases oil on behalf of Cottsway’s tenants. The smart meters inform CBL of oil used, with tenants able to...
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
Shortlisted proposal would see UK village swap from natural gas to hydrogen in 2025
...place expected to be made next year Kent, a leading engineering company in oil and gas and Hydrogen (H2) technologies, has been appointed as the FEED Contractor for aspects of...
News
EET Fuels appoints Toyo-India for ICC project
EET Fuels, which plans to create the world’s leading low carbon process refinery, has progressed to the front-end engineering design (FEED) stage of its industrial carbon capture (ICC) project. The...
Opinion
“A solution to plastic pollution that makes business sense.”
...biofuel feedstock requirements have led to widespread deforestation and impacted wildlife conservation and carbon absorption strategies. Use of feedstocks like corn has driven up the cost of food worldwide, harming...
Interview
Mitchell & Webber: driving the ground breaking campaign for a liquid fuel future
...the waste feedstocks are internationally certified and, importantly for the customer, it is simply a drop-in replacement for fossil heating oil. Early conversions Luckily, we had the ideal property for...
Opinion
We’ll meet again: oil to gas price gap shrinking rapidly
With the spread between natural gas and oil contracting rapidly, Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst at SEB, thinks that a bullish tailwind for oil is at risk and right now both...
News
Cyberattack effect on oil prices
...vulnerabilities within US infrastructure. Why do oil prices vary? Oil prices vary from day to day, but when an unexpected event occurs that causes disruption in the supply chain, drastic...
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...
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Why Canada’s environmental zealot will happily leverage the country’s oil to avoid financial havoc
...is only too aware of just how important this oil region is to the Canadian economy. Alberta’s oil sand deposits alone, represent the world’s third largest crude reserves and the...