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NZTC announces clean energy start-up cohort
The Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC) has announced its 2024 TechX start-up cohort. The TechX Clean Energy Accelerator, now in its sixth year, will welcome 12 high-potential start-ups to the...
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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...
Interview
35 years of tanker loading and process metering solutions
...editor for Fuel Oil News, spoke with operations director, Kiran Shaw, and technical director, Greg Clarke, who head up IFC Inflow, to hear more about the company’s evolution and where...
Interview
Lee Crellin and Ryan Finnigan, Ribble Fuel Oils: tanker-driving photographers
...them and Lee began at the start of his day: “A typical day at work for me starts with doing the yard security checks, reviewing product amounts, and then daily...
Case Study
Manx Petroleum chooses Touchstar’s Fuelstar software to future proof operations
...and further enhance existing business practices. A thorough evaluation of the Fuelstar software, along with Touchstar’s integration & support capabilities, convinced the team that the Manchester-based organisation was the natural...
Opinion
North Sea oil and gas must address challenges to mitigate energy crises
...report series from the Oil and Gas Transitions (OGT) initiative. Long a strategically important reservoir for oil and gas, the North Sea is now a pivotal ground zero for net...
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...
Interview
Why are new UK oil fields essential to a sustainable future?
...oil fields like Cambo, says Katy Heidenreich, operations director at Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) who 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...
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...
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Streamlining the UK’s downstream infrastructure
...being falling market demand following the oil price rise in the aftermath of the first ‘oil shock’ which followed the October 1973 Yom Kippur conflict in the Middle East. Further...
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...
News
TouchStar and HMK Bilcon announce new strategic cooperation
Manchester-based Touchstar Technologies, producers of ePOD systems and Danish company HMK Bilcon, a solutions provider to the downstream fuel logistics market in Europe, have announced a mutually advantageous cooperation. TouchStar...
Opinion
Preparing for a new oil world
Boris Ivanov Boris Ivanov, founder of GPB Global Resources discusses how the fuel oil industry can begin to prepare for the new oil world. With BP cutting 10,000 jobs and...
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...
Interview
Northern Energy: fuelling communities for 90 years
...as a good base of depots, that made it very easy to move into this new emerging market. “Once we started distributing oil we added a new business – Robinsons...
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OptiMate is the key to MechTronic success in Ireland
...Dundalk Oil, Atlantic Oils and Stewart Oils all placing (and receiving) orders in 2020. Barry Finlay at Dundalk Oil said; “We are delighted to be the first fuel oil operative...