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Crown Oil completes acquisition of Star Oil

North West-based Crown Oil has strengthened its brand in the North West after acquiring an £18m-turnover oil supplier. The Greater Manchester company, part of the £420m-turnover Crown Oil family of...
Oil prices

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What price oil? 2024 In review

...the start of June OPEC extended voluntary production cuts for another quarter and involuntary cuts until the end of 2025. Prices began rising again. ICE Gasoil flipped back into backwardation...
In Conversation with The Oil Lady

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In Conversation with The Oil Lady

...was the start of The Oil Lady in 2015! All my previous experience gave me the confidence to start the business and that was how The Oil Lady began.” A...

Interview

Celebrating 50 golden years of Peak Oil

...Peak Oil Tom Pearson founded Peak Oil as a business from his home address in Dronfield, back in 1972 and explains how it all began: “I started Tom Pearson Oils...

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September 14 update

...North Sea oil had just been discovered and the slogan “it’s our oil” began to get traction. Back in October 2013, we looked at the downstream oil industry in Scotland...

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Touchstar wins substantial Certas Energy fleet upgrade order

...platform (software and hardware) variant of ‘FuelStar’ for driver activity and process controls since 2015. Whilst Touchstar continues to support the FuelStar application and the mobile computing device (TS3000, Hawk),...

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The downstream oil market landscape of Ireland in the 2020s

...Oil. In 2018, Irving Oil acquired large independent, Tedcastle Oil Products (TOP), providing it with a distribution terminal in Dublin as well as a substantially expanded market reach. The refinery...
Touchstar case study

Case Study

Digital delivery: selecting a solution

...company chose Manchester-based Touchstar Technologies as its preferred supplier and we find out why the Fuelstar system fitted the bill for the distributor’s mobile digital solutions. Background Carr’s Billington Agriculture...

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Security of oil supply in the fuel distribution sector

...actions from the review’. This body complements the work of the established Downstream Oil Industry Forum (DOIF), set up at the start of the current millennium. The Downstream Oil Resilience...
A new approach born from a deep understanding of fuel distribution

Interview

Value Oils: leader in online fuel distribution

...Oils? “There are many benefits for suppliers selling oil through our website, including: • They are in complete control of the pricing and delivery windows they offer and can easily...

Further Reading

Opinion

Free oil? Not today …

...unlikely to have sold any physical oil at negative prices. The oil industry is already absorbing much of the short-term price shock by putting oil into storage, both on land...
The Weeks

Interview

The downstream customer

...oil and there is a premium price to be paid for last minute deliveries!” Sue reflected: “We think that oil distributors would help, but the quicker you want your oil,...
James Hygate, CEO of Green Fuels chats about the business and plans for future fuel.

Interview

Green Fuels: fighting climate change with sewage sludge

...has a dedicated research team and, since 2020, started producing its own-label fuel production facilities on three continents. Claudia Weeks, content editor for Fuel Oil News, met with James Hygate,...

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With a little help from our friends and family

...Fuel Oils told Fuel Oil News editor, Jane Hughes. One of the newest entrants into fuel oil distribution, Standard Fuel Oils is based in Merseyside. Twenty-eight year old Nick has...
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Market Report

The eternal influence of black gold

...oil company) and, instead, is an operating tri-venture between Exxon Mobil (45%), Amerada Hess (30%) and China’s National Offshore Oil Corporation (25%). With little experience in negotiating oil concessions, Guyana’s...