Insight
Maintaining good mental health: Coping with anxiety
...Fuel Oil News, Mandy discusses how to cope with anxiety, giving practical tips and support. “I’ve been feeling dread all morning. As I drive onto the site, my stomach churns,...
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Interview
Transition talk from Mabanaft CEO Jonathan Perkins
...reasons, to move on from Morgan Stanley I began looking at commodity trading companies – keeping the trading expertise I had but starting to apply it specifically to commodity companies....
Interview
Putting people first in technological progress
...I initially kick-started my career in a technical startup located in Stuttgart, Germany, which is my hometown. As my professional journey unfolded, I had the opportunity to collaborate with industry...
Interview
Mitchell & Webber: driving the ground breaking campaign for a liquid fuel future
...The trial is supported by local, independent fuel distributor, Mitchell & Webber John Weedon, director at Mitchell & Webber, tells us how this nationally important demonstration project started, and talks...
Opinion
INEOS warns that “Britain is squandering energy independence” as it marks 50 years of the Forties Pipeline System.
...Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 3 November 1975, the Forties Pipeline transformed the UK’s energy landscape. It took Britain from being almost entirely dependent on imported oil to becoming...
Interview
Donegal distributor gets lucky
...depot. If oil exploration develops further off the west coast of Ireland – something largely determined by global oil prices – Arthur is hopeful there will be a beneficial knock-on...
Interview
Next generation joins family-owned fuel distributor
...had Nolan Oils overalls, but in order to get our Nolan Oils badge we had to steer the lorry around the yard whilst sat on our father’s lap. Luke at...
News
Essar staff offered £30,000 “leaver incentive” package
...and community for Essar Oil (UK) Ltd. In a statement explaining the move, Mr Cotton said: “Essar Oil UK announced in February our intention to increase the production of higher...
Interview
In Profile – Jane Raphael
...Retiring last April after 21 years as the well-respected editor of Fuel Oil News and Oil Installer. Tell us your greatest fear. A debilitating illness. Which is most important –...
News
Gulf Retail wins global award
...December Last month Certas Energy received the accolade of Gulf Oil Best Fuel Partner of the Year from Gulf Oil International at its annual conference in Dubai. The award recognises...
News
Making oil-heated homes more energy efficient
...better insulation and a boiler scrappage scheme “Even though oil prices have plummeted in recent months to a four-year low, fuel poverty is still more likely in oil-heated households,” says...
Insight
Strategic supply from Britain’s largest refinery
...and 22m mt of crude oil, oil products and chemicals per year. The facility can accommodate coasters or part laden tankers of up to 350,000 (deadweight) DWT. The refinery complex...
News
Happy 40th anniversary
...a flavour of the event look here. And look out for photographs in the January 2018 issue of Fuel Oil News. To share your very latest news with Fuel Oil...
News
Vulnerable rural households hit by discrepancies
...the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) that oil boilers will not, as initially proposed, be excluded from ECO3 which has now come into effect. However, the inclusion of oil does...
Interview
In conversation with Jonathan Pinnock of JPS Fuels
...get on with it. People needed their oil.” Moments like this capture what the past seven years have been for Jonathan – a mix of pressure, pride, and sheer determination....
Analysis
An industry acquiring
...us more about the recent acquisitions of Jones Oil and Campus Oils Daire Keating, managing director cards, Austria & Ireland, DCC Retail & Oil, said: “We are very excited about...
News
UKIFDA challenges Irish government on biofuels
...Of the 686,000 households in Ireland on heating oil just 11% of homes are on oil in Dublin, compared with 76% in Monaghan and 70% in Cavan with the average...
News
Ambitious low carbon investments
The UK Petroleum Industry Association (UKPIA) has welcomed the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) funding towards hydrogen projects at Essar’s Stanlow oil refinery and a renewable hydrogen...