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New petroleum safety course
The National Skills Academy has launched a one day Petroleum Safety Training course. Aimed at contractors working at top tier COMAH petroleum sites, the course has been designed to supplement...
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Definitely above Par
Earlier this year, Par Petroleum took the FPS Depot of the Year title for a fifth time. “There’s more trophies here than in Sunderland Football Club’s cabinet,” joked operations director...
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New fuel quality monitoring scheme
Turriff Fuels and CPL Petroleum have implemented the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) new fuel certification scheme. Developed in conjunction with tank hygiene specialists, OTS TankCare and Scarletts Systems,...
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Prax Petroleum’s parent acquires Harvest Energy
...in petroleum products and biofuels. It has substantial syndicated banking facilities which provide a platform to support the group’s national and international ambitions. State Oil’s managing director Sanjeev Kumar said:...
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Simon supports Prax expansion
...fuel suppliers like Prax Petroleum a fully integrated package from receipt through to redelivery with intank or inline blending of biofuels with conventional hydrocarbons to meet RTFO regulations.” www.simonstorage.com www.praxpetroleum.com...
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PDP Scheme acts on home heat sector concerns
The Petroleum Driver Passport (PDP) scheme, an industry initiative backed by government to ensure all tanker drivers in the UK are trained and assessed to a high standard, was created...
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Future market demands for tank level monitoring
...increased digitalisation and technological innovation as Howard Marriott, group transport manager for Barton Petroleum confirms. “With digitalisation everything seems easier,” Howard shares. “All transactions are recorded digitally so it is...
Interview
The Cobo fuel distributor conference – tankers, tours and tapas
...of tankers for the transport of petroleum products. The family are still very much involved; the business is now managed by Don Federico Cobo and Don Fernando Gomis. The family...
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Distributor diaries September 2023
...your milestone Stuart from all at FON! Par Petroleum – sponsoring the next generation of football stars Par Petroleum Ltd, the North-East based fuel distributor, is proud and excited to...
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Annual industry event is reviewed by the fuel distribution community
...downside was that I didn’t manage to see everyone I intended to meet with!” Clive Morin, managing director, Barton Petroleum “For FoxInsights it was a very successful show. We were...
Interview
Road Tankers Northern: leading from its ‘one stop shop’
Road Tankers Northern (RTN) is one of the UK’s largest suppliers of petroleum and LPG (liquid petroleum gas) road tankers. With a highly skilled workforce, Barnsely-based RTN, a specialist in...
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Stephen Keep, tanker driver: ‘Tanker driving has been his whole world’
...for Argotill Petroleum (part of the BWOC group in Weston super Mare). We had already dealt with BWOC for many years, so a job there was easy to come by....
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Distributor diaries August – the latest updates from our distributor community
...A big well done from us all!” Congratulations Luke! Barton Petroleum Ltd – An incredi-bowl evening! Barton Petroleum Ltd, the Northamptonshire-based fuel distributor, enjoyed a team night out to the...
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Fuel distribution excellence recognised at superb industry event
...also highlighted for their own contributions to innovating the sector. Setting the highest standard There were huge congratulations for Barton Petroleum Leicester Depot as the winner of the UKIFDA Depot...
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Distributors act swiftly to protect heating oil customers from supply shortages
...of Man resulting in island distributors taking similar action. Manx Petroleum has announced temporary restrictions on volumes delivered to customers until the company receives its next shipment into the Douglas...
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Greenergy completes acquisition of Amber Petroleum
Greenergy has completed the acquisition of Amber Petroleum (‘Amber’), an independent fuel retailer and distributor based in the Republic of Ireland. The completion of this transaction gives Greenergy a growing...
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Rod Prowse
...of different countries including Australia, Argentina, Benelux, Bosnia, Jordan, Malaysia, Portugal, Russia, South Africa and USA. Rod also served as non-executive director on a number of companies including Delek Petroleum...
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A Day in the life – Tim Croughwell of Barton Petroleum
...manager at Barton Petroleum, winner of the UKIFDA depot of the year award and legendary tea drinker, to discover how he spends a typical day. MY ALARM GOES OFF AT…...