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£800,000 investment expands HVO fuel trials

...oil heating to the renewable fuel Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) this winter, amounting to an initial investment of over £800,000. The news follows the publication of the government’s Heat and...

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Products for a greener sector

...joined the programme: “DCC Oil Group was in the process of merging three oil companies – Jones Oils, Campus Oils and Emo Oils. We were looking for a complete transport...

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Backing a certainty

...Fourteen years later and now managing director at Certas Energy, Paul Vian was in the interview chair From GB Oils to Certas Energy Why the change of name? “It was...
MPs support bill to incentivise rural households to convert kerosene boilers to HVO

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MPs support bill to incentivise renewable liquid fuels

...oil. 150 oil heated properties, from homes, businesses, schools to churches have already successfully switched to HVO as part of the industry funded demonstration, with no major technical hurdles and...

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The next generation of fuel distributors

To consider the future of the fuel oil industry, we need to contemplate its past. From a ‘dirty oil’ image to one displaying adaptation, growth and evolution, the changing face...

Interview

A career dedicated to fuel

As he looked forward to his retirement in May this year, Fuel Oil News spoke with Bob Taylor, managing director of World Fuel Services’ UK Land Business, who shared with...

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Stanlow’s strong performance

Reducing production of lower margin products such as fuel oil and naphtha, Essar’s Stanlow refinery has increased the yield of high margin products such as gasoline and middle distillates Essar...

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Oil theft on the rise

...crude oil rises and are advising homeowners to take a few simple steps to secure their oil tanks. These include keeping oil levels as low as necessary to reduce the...

Insight

Gas grid and storage facilities in the UK

The start up of gas production in 1967 from the Leman field in the North Sea heralded a very substantial and ambitious infrastructure project, spanning the 1970s and early 1980s....

Insight

A vertically challenged market

...UK oil market has seen a gradual shift away from domination by the oil majors and mini majors. Their rationalisation and repositioning created a vacuum now filled by importers and...

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INEOS completes Forties Pipeline acquisition from BP 

...responsibility for a strategic UK asset that delivers almost 40% of the UK’s North Sea oil and gas output, INEOS has further strengthened its long-term oil and gas activity.  The...

Interview

A better strategy for Irish distributors

...capital employed (ROCE) The RoI heating oil market is oversupplied – simply put, there are too many oil distributors. This equilibrium imbalance can only be resolved by a reduction in...