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Marsh Fuels celebrates two significant milestones

Interview

Marsh Fuels: two significant milestones

...that oil arrived and would later become the firm’s main source of income. Fred Marsh also started the building of small industrial units, and the company became landlords too. Carrie...

Insight

A critical role for Stanlow

...the 1970s Stanlow was the flagship refinery in a network of five plants serving the country’s oil product requirements. By the start of the new millennium, subsequent rationalisation had resulted...
OilMaxx Express

News

OilMaxx launches mobile fuel delivery service

...a one-stop solution for all their fuel and lubricant requirements. OilMaxx Express and OilMaxx are both part of the Oilfast Group of companies based in Motherwell, Scotland. Image credit: OilMaxx...

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OGUK confident despite Shell Cambo stance

...of oil and oil products such as petrol, diesel and aviation fuel This amounts to just under a tonne of oil per UK citizen. Transport is the primary use. About...
Portland Report August

Market Report

Prices and predictions: how are we faring?

...and whether the oil price predictions we made in January are on course to be correct. Let’s start with crude and the Brent price, which started the year at $76...
A company diversifying to meet the marketing needs of an evolving sector.

Interview

Econoprint: continually diversifying marketing services

...built an app which ties in with the website to help keep the oil distributor even more connected with their customers. “From ordering custom-priced oil, seeing a live oil level...

Interview

Oil clubs, drums, kero pumps and NIOF distributors

...contamination from drips/spillages as it’s poured into the household tank. “Small oil drums are for emergency use only. They should provide a small amount of oil – often in an...

News

Community Buying – The organisers’ view…

...customers to purchase their oil before December to try and avoid paying an inflated price.” Keith Weller, co-ordinator of the Worcestershire-based Bayton Oil Syndicate agrees: “I get people to buy...

News

Bungalow destroyed by tank fire

...to installing and protecting oil tanks. As well as the human risk, an unprotected oil tank can cause substantial damage to property if set alight.  Government statistics estimate the average...

News

A good infrastructure?

...Climate Change (DECC), three separate reports on the subject have been undertaken by WoodMackenzie, Deloitte, and Purvin & Gertz.  v    UKdownstream oil infrastructure v     Downstream oil – short term resilience and...

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Heating oil theft falls

OFTEC registered technicians can assist your customers with advice on the necessary precautions to protect their oil heating assets OFTEC has welcomed research which reveals that heating oil is no...

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Making light work of heavy oil

The V25 Test Rig at the Trondheim, SINTEF Research Institute Using environmentally friendly methods to process crude and dirty oils, Fluid Oil has commissioned its first heavy to light oil...