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Oil & gas investment key to UK transition

...to alternatives like hydrogen and renewables. And we have the data to show that it is oil and gas companies with their skills and experience that are becoming the energy...

Interview

In profile with Ken Cronin of UKIFDA

...to West Ham. What’s the biggest challenge of our time? Ensuring we have the right skills for the period ahead and not just to outsource it all to someone else....

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New logistics firm launched

...the customer’s business and can offer experience and total transparency without the in-house cost, skills need and risk associated with employing people.” Former Heil operations director, Wendy Dalton joins Chris...

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Louise Kingham OBE to succeed Peter Mather at BP

...and skillfully manage a broad set of relationships across the ‎UK and continental Europe.”‎ Louise Kingham OBE William Lin, executive vice president regions, cities & solutions, said: “We are very...
Elizabeth de Jong, CEO of UKPIA, considers hydrogen and CCUS as part of the energy transition.

Opinion

Hydrogen and CCUS: a sector placed to deliver

...sector employs more than 100,000 direct jobs across the country with refineries offering highly skilled roles in areas like the Humber, South Wales and the North West, in communities which...
Fears are growing for hundreds of jobs as well as energy resilience over reports that the Chinese backer for Grangemouth refinery, one of Scotland’s biggest employers, may appoint restructuring advisers.

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Confirmed: Grangemouth, the UK’s oldest refinery, is to close in 2025

...Willow’, is assessing various low-carbon opportunities from technical, economic, commercial, regulatory, environment, community and skills perspectives. Project Willow, funded equally by the Scottish Government and UK Government, is being managed...

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A UK hydrogen first for Stanlow

...this initiative and believe we have the facilities and technological skills to help deliver the project.  The construction of the hydrogen facility at Stanlow is the first stage in becoming...

Interview

DCC on ambitions for Ireland and energy transition

...challenge. If you’re willing to ask the questions, be curious, you want to learn and you’re willing to challenge by asking the questions – those things are great skills to...

Opinion

How we can use hydrogen to achieve net zero

...substantial storage infrastructure. Fortunately, professionals with engineering expertise from the oil and gas industry possess highly transferable skills to address practical problems in the hydrogen sector. Innovative hydrogen storage projects...

Insight

Uniquely configured for supply reliability

The UK-wide disruption in fuel distribution in September and October served to highlight the vital role our industry plays in enabling the movement of goods and people. Triggered by a...
The fuel distributor expanding in a declining sector

Interview

Rapid growth keeps Exswift Fuels in the pink

A couple of years ago we chatted with Chloe Crofts, CEO of Exswift Fuels, a company, at that time, into its third year. With the domestic kerosene delivery business having...
A look at events impacting fuel prices in November and predictions for December

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Thoughts on fuel prices – November in review

“It turns out that trying to predict fuel prices is like trying to work out what food my toddler will agree to eat on an evening – almost impossible, but...