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Community Buying – The organisers’ view…

...customers to purchase their oil before December to try and avoid paying an inflated price.” Keith Weller, co-ordinator of the Worcestershire-based Bayton Oil Syndicate agrees: “I get people to buy...

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Bungalow destroyed by tank fire

...to installing and protecting oil tanks. As well as the human risk, an unprotected oil tank can cause substantial damage to property if set alight.  Government statistics estimate the average...

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A good infrastructure?

...Climate Change (DECC), three separate reports on the subject have been undertaken by WoodMackenzie, Deloitte, and Purvin & Gertz.  v    UKdownstream oil infrastructure v     Downstream oil – short term resilience and...

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Heating oil theft falls

OFTEC registered technicians can assist your customers with advice on the necessary precautions to protect their oil heating assets OFTEC has welcomed research which reveals that heating oil is no...

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Making light work of heavy oil

The V25 Test Rig at the Trondheim, SINTEF Research Institute Using environmentally friendly methods to process crude and dirty oils, Fluid Oil has commissioned its first heavy to light oil...

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Dealing with price volatility

...oil trading centres in Londonand Rotterdamgives us a unique insight in to market thinking and oil intelligence.”  wwwfuelpricesonline.com The WP Group has used the service for over 10 years. Managing...

Interview

Oil v gas

...likens the presence of gas to the new competition posed by the selling of home heating oil on forecourts. The Northern Ireland Oil Federation (NIOF) has little doubt that the...
Portland Report August

Market Report

Prices and predictions: how are we faring?

...and whether the oil price predictions we made in January are on course to be correct. Let’s start with crude and the Brent price, which started the year at $76...