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Insight

The changing world of the oil trader

...Total, etc. These vertically integrated international oil companies (IOCs) have been joined by state owned concerns, or national oil companies ( NOCd )- names such as Aramco, Kuwait Petroleum, IPC,...

Interview

The battle to offer a competitive product

...Top Oil has invested in its Dublin terminal Tackling low margins Outlining how consumer spending has changed, Martin said heating oil order sizes had reduced to 500 litres and even...

News

Could heating oil prices be frozen?

...rising demand for refined oil products. Indeed, the same report pointed out that the UK depends on imports for 44% of its heating oil requirements. A fact that vividly illustrates...

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

The shipping news

...High Sulphur Fuel Oil LSFO – Low Sulphur Fuel Oil LSMGO – Low Sulphur Marine Gas Oil IFO – Intermediate Fuel Oil ECUK – East Coast UK ECA – Emission...

News

Portland Market Report – oil prices

...attractively low oil prices. The two biggest strategic buyers of oil in the world are the oil reserve companies of the USA and China respectively, both of whom are currently...

Analysis

A deep dive into fuel distribution industry data

...solar and heat pumps. The census shows that the number of oil-heated homes has dropped 3% since the last census. It is likely that many oil-heated homes are in the...
Ian Moore, of The Oil Market Journal, reviews the oil price in 2022.

Insight

What price oil? 2022 in review

Ian Moore, founder and managing director of The Oil Market Journal, takes us through the year, highlighting the main impacts affecting the oil price in 2022. Contained within this article...
As the UK continues to seek the right strategy to deliver a future of low carbon energy we consider Norway, a country leading the way in decarbonisation

Insight

Downstream Norway: Leading the way in decarbonisation

...cover these requirements, leaving a modest surplus across all grades. Stockholding obligations Norway imposes emergency stockholding obligations on oil importers and oil producers who imported quantities of oil equal to,...
Claudia Weeks talks to Simon van Lonkhuyzen, Managing Director at TEC.

Interview

TEC: driving forward through innovation

...also developed two new oil reeling hoses specifically for the oil distribution industry – TECOIL and FUELTEC. FUELTEC is now a market leader and TECOIL entered the market in mid-2022...

Opinion

Highs and lows of the oil price drop

...has been warned that 30,000 jobs in the gas and oil sector could be lost, with oil prices falling to their lowest in two decades. But, despite the global crash...

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...

Opinion

OMJ anticipates oil market movements

Amidst a global lockdown resulting in less and less demand for oil, the oil market has been in turmoil. Ian Moore, director of the Oil Market Journal (OMJ) shares his...