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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...

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,...
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...

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...
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...
Graph of Q2 2025 oil prices

Analysis

What price oil? Q2 2025 in review

In association with The Oil Market Journal. A quarterly review of the movements of, and impacts on, brent crude and HVO diesel prices. With data supplied by the Oil Market...

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...

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...
Oil refinery at sunset

Analysis

What price oil? Q1 2026 in review

...Oil Market Journal, we highlight some of the key events that have impacted pricing over the quarter. World on the brink: U.S. strikes, Iran conflict and oil shock rock global...

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...