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Oil heating updates on Oilsave website
The Oilsave website has been updated to carry new campaign material to promote oil heating to consumers. Members of the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) are due to receive an...
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The shipping news
...UK-based subsidiaries (Henty Oil, Falmouth Petroleum and Tramp Oil) supply over 750,000 metric tons of bunkers each year in UK ports (HSFO, LSFO and LSMGO). The company has storage and...
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IFC Inflow celebrates 30 years in business
...oil and petroleum distribution sector is IFC’s largest market, followed closely by chemical and petrochemical distribution, Fuel Oil News asked Kiran about the work in the Fuel Oil News market....
Opinion
Dodgy tanks – do you refuse to fill?
...or driver at risk. As always in these cases, we would seek a resolution with the tank owner to ensure any issue is rectified.” Ben Casey, Barton Petroleum, Northamptonshire “The...
Opinion
Do you see issues with the introduction of Euro VI or do you welcome it as positive step towards increasing energy efficiency?
...exhaust will reach in the EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) cycle. This may become a problem when carrying petroleum products and may even be an issue with oil terminal safety and...
Interview
A unique fuel industry set up for Convery Oils & Convery Engineering
...has continued to grow. We discontinued petrol retailing in 2012, using the forecourt space to expand the engineering factory space.” Convery Oils is now a well-established and highly respected brand...
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Addition of GoldenRod expands CTS distributorships
...Their range of filters, designed for the removal of either particles or water content from diesel, petrol, kerosene and biofuels, includes the 495 Fuel Tank Filter, 496 Water Block Fuel...
Insight
COP26 FON blog 4: Transport decarbonisation
...increase the amount of ethanol in petrol, the so-called E10 grade fuel. The impact of this is the equivalent of taking 350,000 cars off the road every year with no...
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EG Group announced as frontrunners to take over Asda
...The possibility of expanding the supermarket business in their petrol station network is a key part of the operation that has put the Issa brothers and TDR, the London-based private...
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Motor Fuel Group lifeline for Murco
MFG managing director, Jeremy Clarke Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has signed an agreement to purchase the retail assets of Murco Petroleum Limited (Murco), which is scheduled to close by the...
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Distributor joins forces with police
...these leaflets to those people who are most likely to benefit. The theft of heating and diesel oil always tends to increase whenever there are price rises at the petrol...
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Crude oil supply – Essar enters new arrangement
...the inventories of crude oil and petroleum products at Stanlow and will supply crude to the refinery in line with its requirements. The new arrangements allow Essar Oil UK to...
Opinion
“Do you agree with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) that the Province should have more oil buying clubs?”
...of £1 per litre! “Rather than join a club many consumers are now filling drums they’ve acquired over the last few years at kerosene pumps at their local petrol station....
Insight
Task force to take action on UK refining and fuel import issues
...basis. The key question is how best to satisfy the evolving/changing pattern and levels of product demand, including export markets for surplus petrol, mindful of considerations of energy security, supply...
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Greenergy – additional biodiesel production
...ex-rack customer of Greenergy for petrol and diesel for its customers in the south east of England, Teesside and in Scotland. “The acquisition of the Harvest biodiesel plant will help...
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The best forecourt in Scotland
...the flagship petrol forecourt. “Although a large forecourt in a busy location, store manager Derek Paton and his team are still able to provide a personal touch and genuine customer...
Insight
COP26 FON Blog 5: Downstream challenges
...the sector alone. “Our members are already seizing the opportunities created by this pledge; both by producing the petroleum coke for the EV batteries, or the many other products that...
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Fuel poverty – distributors get together
...Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) is assisting people in fuel poverty who use heating oil. Several donations have already been received from oil distributors across the Midlands where an agreement...