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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...
OPEC+ agrees to continue with current output targets, despite market uncertainty

Insight

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...
Luke Nolan

Interview

Fuelling the future: The voice of the next generation 

...Community Content Lead at Fuel Oil News, spoke with Luke Nolan, Sales Manager at Nolan Oils and Emma Osborn-Wilkes, Managing Director at Halso Fuels UK and EL-Oils to discuss how...

News

February 2016 update

...of the crude oil sold around the world. The vast majority of crude oil is sold at a discount to these two grades. So when we talk about $20 a...

Insight

Marine bunkering – fuel for a vital activity

...oil/ light fuel oil, with maximum density which can range between 0.890 and 0.920 kg/m3 at 15 degrees C Marine gas oil – meets the inland heating oil specification i.e....

Opinion

New UK oil essential for low carbon future

...oil fields like Cambo, says Katy Heidenreich, operations director at Oil & Gas UK (OGUK). Katy shares her thoughts with us: “Shell’s decision to suspend its involvement in Cambo, the...

Interview

DCC on ambitions for Ireland and energy transition

...for Retail & Oil, who joined the company 10 years ago, initially as managing director for oil, then for retail, oil and fuel cards, to understand more about DCC’s goals...
Future prospects for kerosene and HVO with domestic heating electrification ambitions.

Insight

Heating future: prospects for kerosene and HVO

...Kerosene: This product heralded the age of the oil industry in the late 19th century when it was sold as lamp oil. The balance of probability is that its use...

News

Heating oil’s future – making a difference

“Oil is the cheapest option for off grid homes and has been since October 2014,” says FPS chief executive Guy Pulham. The FPS is urging all those using oil to...

News

Great news for oil boilers

...the Greenstar oil boiler range has also obtained Which Best Buy status, the only oil boiler range on the market to achieve this. Homeowners and heating engineers rated the Greenstar...
Touchstar geofencing

Review

Software: latest industry innovations

...been supplying logistics optimisation solutions for the oil and gas sector for almost four decades. TouchStar’s specialist ATEX approved mobile computers are designed, manufactured and serviced in its Manchester office...

News

Cyberattack effect on oil prices

...vulnerabilities within US infrastructure. Why do oil prices vary? Oil prices vary from day to day, but when an unexpected event occurs that causes disruption in the supply chain, drastic...