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FPS EXPO 2013 – more visitors
Visitors to FPS EXPO 2013 admire WCF Fuels’ latest tanker. Built by RTN Lakeland, it features WCF Fuels’ new logo Visitor numbers at this year’s FPS EXPO, where 98 exhibitors...
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The benefits of tank telemetry implementation
...to expand our network and grow the business. A lot of this growth came from adapting new ideas – we were the first Irish distributor to put a mini tanker...
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Simon provides specialist storage and water separation services
...vacuum tankers, for recycling at its Stourport-on-Severn processing plant. Simon’s Immingham East Terminal is permitted to carry out water separation activities and recovery of separated hazardous and non-hazardous waste products...
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The Humber refinery – a key indigenous source of supply
...as being of high complexity and close to the top end of European facilities for upgrade/conversion capability. Crude oil is delivered from tankers to the refinery via a mono buoy...
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Upgrade for Adler & Allan
...delivery is also covered, ensuring essential vehicles, plant machinery and general operations and fully functional. The onsite fleet of tankers, fitted with the best pumping equipment on the market, are...
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Rix Petroleum teams up with My Name’5 Doddie Foundation
...donations. The company has also taken its support of the foundation on the road by displaying branding on the back of a tanker to help spread its message. Rix Petroleum...
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Oikos’ hosts Ramanda vessel powered by LNG
The first ship powered solely by liquified natural as (LNG) is to unload at the iconic Oikos jetties on the River Thames. The ship, Ramanda, from the Gothia Tanker Alliance...
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Excitement builds for UKIFDA EXPO 2021
...Cobo Tankers and Services sponsoring each day of the conference together with the EXPO headline sponsor Phillips 66 Ltd. Ken Cronin concludes: “It is exciting to see what exhibitors have...
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Stolt-Nielsen acquires Dagenham storage terminal
...UK market and will provide added support to the Stolt Tankers’ inter-European coastal fleet. Our initial plans include an immediate upgrade programme, with the decommissioning of several old tanks and...
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Life begins at 40
...the tanker. Having entered the business formally some years later, as a yard boy at the Watford depot, Richard then took a break to go to university. Keen to gain...
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Crown Oil completes acquisition of Star Oil
...staff numbers to more than 1,250. Star Oil, set up by Christian Hatherall and Michael Doyle, has seven tankers covering the North West and supplies fuel, oil and lubricants to...
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Watson Fuels opens state-of-the-art Kent depot
...as well as improving the tank infrastructure and capacity within a number of existing depot and office locations. Watson has also been modernising its 350-strong fleet of tankers and will...
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Fair price award for Isle of Wight Fuels
...across the Island. Oil is shipped into the terminal in East Cowes by the company’s own tanker, the Rix Merlin. The facility in Kingston Road stores up to three million...
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Refining operations
...refinery site comprises 145 storage tanks including 11 for crude oil and 38 road tanker loading bays which can accommodate up to 400 RTWs per day. The rail loading facility...
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Northern Ireland – an overdependence on oil?
When kerosene is being distributed by taxi rather than tanker, it’s time to take action. Air your views on the heating oil market, among other hot topics, at the Distributor...
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Up and running
Pictured beside the WP Group’s newest tanker – Dan Hedges, Melanie Noel and Terry Brown – on the Magyar stand at FPS EXPO 2018 When the Southampton-based WP Group launched...
Analysis
Recruitment and retention at NWF Fuels
NWF Fuels delivers heating oil and commercial fuel across the UK from its strategically located depot network using a modern fleet of 120 fuel tankers. In the last year, the...
Analysis
Energy Resilience – Is the UK facing a crisis?
...away, meaning that large ships are needed to transport fuels to the EU. The UK’s ageing infrastructure, with some exceptions, struggles to handle large oil tankers, which instead will typically...