Interview
A proud tanker driver
Alex Longman is a man with a real fiery passion for tanker driving, Fuel Oil News deputy editor, Liz Boardman went to Dragon Petroleum to meet him. Driving professionally since...
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Interview
James Hygate, Firefly Green Fuels: challenges and progress on the pathway to green aviation
...SAF high on the agenda in a rapidly transforming energy sector, Claudia Weeks, Community Content Lead for Fuel Oil News, met with James Hygate, CEO, for an update on the...
News
A round up of people moves in the industry
...Zenith.” Andrew Scaman has started a new role as Area Sales Manager at Compass Energy Firefly Green Fuels welcomes Rob Hemsley to the team in the role of Chief Financial...
Opinion
The 2025 outlook for distribution and logistics: David Wells OBE, Logistics UK
...old adage goes, failing to plan is planning to fail, and as the heart of the UK’s trading relationships, I believe logistics deserves to be included from the start of...
Interview
Sustainable aviation fuel: routes to feedstocks that can fill the production gap
...current and future production gap and explains how Honeywell UOP is developing conversion technologies to enable them to deliver at scale. All human progress starts with someone suggesting that “there...
Interview
Driving safety forward: inside the NWF Fuels Safety Cup
...our team. Q: How is the rollout progressing? Luke: It’s fully rolled out, and drivers were eager to see the first updates, published on November 20th. I’m excited to start...
Interview
Road Tankers Northern: leading from its ‘one stop shop’
...Roberts salesman) to help start up a new business manufacturing tankers and the rest is history.” RTN was building over 80 new road tankers a year by 1993 having quickly...
News
Bristol-based fuel distributor appoints new company directors
...exemplary service. Currently operating over 130 delivery vehicles from 12 depots across the UK, Ford Fuels started life as GH Ford & Sons, shortly before the Second World War, when...
Opinion
Hydrogen (H2.0): a new dawn?
...following hype around the sector, and the same has been observed since the start of 2021; however, political motivations and the readiness of the sector are very different this time...
News
Up for a challenge at Morris Lubricants
...and Welshpool Rugby Clubs, Shrewsbury Town Football Club, rally star, Tom Cave, Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship class champion, Lea Wood and British Truck Racing star, Dave Jenkins. A...
Interview
In Conversation with Martyn Lyons, TR3 Consulting
...multiple pipelines, multiple pumps. Most dedicated product terminals are oil terminals with a good example being the terminals on the Thames which are all oil terminals, all storing petrol, diesel,...
Opinion
Industry welcomes fuel duty freeze in Government’s first Budget
...a great start. But please don’t rest on your laurels. Let’s build the first-ever road-user transport strategy that benefits the economy without your party’s false and emotional, scientifically baseless belief...
Interview
A Day in the Life…Helen Rawsthorne
Welcome to our feature where people from many different roles in this industry will take you through a typical day in their working life. This month, Fuel Oil News speaks...
Interview
Goals, ambitions and strategies: The expansion of the EET retail network
Narayan Bhatra, EET CEO Retail, talks with Claudia Weeks, Fuel Oil News Community Content Lead, about the business, its goals and ambitions and its strategies for expansion of its retail...
News
September 2023: People moves in the fuel distribution sector
...a new Chief Executive in Neil Isaacson, Ryze’s new Managing Director – Infrastructure Delivery, Garry Birmingham, and Service Solutions Director Carl Buckingham. Oilfast Oilfast has announced that Jonathan Stewart has...
News
Humber refinery – a family affair
...video sees children and grandchildren of staff who work at the refinery starring in the many roles, including engineers, scientists and IT professionals. Family of staff sent in audition tapes...
Interview
A heritage to be proud of: 70 years of Gleaner
...Fuel Oil News, spoke with David Todd, Managing Director at Gleaner, to find out about the last 70 years and what the future holds for the business. The history Gleaner...
Opinion
New UK Global Tariff gets positive response
...light oils will be rounded down from 4.7% to 4%. Tariffs for most fuel oils will fall from 3.7% to 2%. So-called nuisance tariffs, those under 2%, have been scrapped...