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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...
Oil prices on screen

Analysis

Why kerosene surged: Inside the heating oil price shock

...escalated, global oil markets reacted instantly. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz – a critical oil transit route – was disrupted, tanker movements slowed and traders priced in supply risks....

News

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...
The Weeks

Interview

The downstream customer

...oil and there is a premium price to be paid for last minute deliveries!” Sue reflected: “We think that oil distributors would help, but the quicker you want your oil,...
Oil prices on screen

Analysis

What price oil? Q2 2026 in review

In association with The Oil Market Journal With insight and data supplied by The Oil Market Journal, we focus on the movements of, and impacts on, Brent Crude prices over...
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Market Report

The eternal influence of black gold

...oil company) and, instead, is an operating tri-venture between Exxon Mobil (45%), Amerada Hess (30%) and China’s National Offshore Oil Corporation (25%). With little experience in negotiating oil concessions, Guyana’s...
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...
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...
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

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

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

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...
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...