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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...
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...
Touchstar wins substantial Certas Energy order for tanker fleet system update

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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),...
Peak Oil, a family operated distribution business covering Derbyshire, South Yorkshire, and Nottinghamshire and formed in 1972 by Tom Pearson, has just celebrated its 50th anniversary in business.

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...
Rix Petroleum, one of the oldest family- owned, independent fuel distributors in the UK, adopts a new fuel distribution system.

Case Study

A new fuel distribution system for Rix Petroleum

...Rix selected a new system from TouchStar Technologies. The core of TouchStar’s ‘FuelStar’ system is P.O.D. software that is designed to digitise the entire process from loading to delivering and...
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,...

Further Reading

The current millennium has witnessed changes in the downstream oil sector in Ireland of a scale and extent that far exceeded anything that occurred in the 50 or so years prior. We consider how in Ireland the process has been characterised by consolidation in the competitive landscape accompanied by rationalisation of logistics arrangements.

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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...
The number one concern in the fuel distribution sector is confidence in supply security. With recent global events highlighting the impact of supply shortages we take a fresh look at this perennial industry topic.

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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...

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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...
A new approach born from a deep understanding of fuel distribution

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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...

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...

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Ford Fuels optimises delivery with tech investment

...TouchStar after the company’s software provider, Fuelsoft, recommended the installation of TouchStar’s ‘Hawk’ units, which were then installed in six Ford Fuels vehicles. As with any business operation, time is...
OPEC+ agrees to continue with current output targets, despite market uncertainty

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What price oil? 2023 In review

...demand, causing oil to fall to one year lows. Q2 Q2 started with a sharp rise in oil prices following OPEC’s surprise voluntary production cut towards to the end of...