News
Cost effective depot upgrades
...brings terminal loading technology to depot distribution. When IFC originally started building skids for depot loading, electronic batch control was still new to tanker loading and was mainly installed in...
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Insight
The growth of large retail dealer groups
...supply around 17% of the country’s forecourt fuel requirements. How the retail market was rationalised Rationalisation by the oil majors has enabled this transformation of the retail market’s landscape. In...
Interview
A Day in the Life with Erin Newberry of EET Fuels
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...
Insight
Fuel distribution and veterans: a perfect fit
In recent years, there have been an increased number of ex-military personnel joining the fuel industry. Claudia Weeks, Community Content Lead for Fuel Oil News, spoke to several of those...
News
1st October – Debt Pre-Action Protocol
Acumen Credit Insurance Brokers would like to draw the attention of fuel oil distributors to the Debt Pre-Action Protocol which comes into force on 1st October 2017. This Protocol describes the...
News
Distributor Diaries February 2025 – the latest updates from our distributor community
...and has boosted my confidence as I look ahead to my next challenge.” Fuel Oil News looks forward to following Lauren’s journey. If you are sponsoring the next sports star...
News
Latest industry people moves – February 2025
...position as Sales Manager at Fuel Additive Science Technologies Limited Chris Donaldson VR is starting a new position as Driver Trainer at Oilfast George Brinkworth has started a new position...
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...
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,...