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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...
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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....
News
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...
News
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...
News
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...
News
Bikers spectacular Remembrance tribute supports Veterans into Logistics charity
A symbolic procession of 5986 motorbikes took to the M60 around Stockport on Remembrance Sunday to create a Ring of Red, with bikers paying their respects to the Armed Forces...
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...
Insight
Rapidly changing oil market creates pricing and supply issues
With the price of heating oil more than tripling over the past 6 months and continuing to fluctuate unpredictably, distributors have reported issues with product availability and cost and voiced...
News
Fuel supplies ‘at risk’ as Fawley workers ballot result awaited
Fuel supplies could be affected if workers at ExxonMobil’s Fawley refinery vote for strike action in a ballot that got underway yesterday (Monday 21 February), according to workers’ union Unite....
Interview
Back to the future: Hytek is looking to its past to thrive in the future
Affected by the recent supply issues which have been suffered by many in the sector, industry equipment supplier Hytek feels that its response to the challenges and service to customers...
News
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...
News
£20million HGV driver facility funding boost for logistics sector
The government’s announcement of an additional £20million to boost HGV driver facilities is a positive step forward for industry, according to Logistics UK. The business group is now calling on...
Interview
Could improving gender diversity be an answer to the driver shortage problem?
The fuel oil distribution business is heavily male dominated with very few women driving tankers. When Fuel Oil News caught up with a new distribution business, Bedford Fuels, for our...
News
Logistics UK’s delivers record-breaking transport manager conference series
With the final event in the Logistics UK Transport Manager 2022 conference series taking place today, the nationwide series of events for transport managers has been the most successful yet...
News
Fuel sector growth drives key appointment at Sutton Tankers
As part of its growth strategy, Suttons Tankers has announced the appointment of Nigel Hughes, who will be based at Ellesmere Port, to the role of head of fuels. The...
News
Logistics UK crowned Trade Association of the Year
With Covid-19, Brexit, new technology and other disruptive forces driving change in the way goods move across borders and through the supply chain, the awareness of the importance of logistics...