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New product offers financial certainty to fuel suppliers

...The MicroBond provides 100% cover, on demand with no excess. Claims for non-payment are payable, typically, within days rather than weeks. Suppliers receive investment-grade certainty that their retail clients will...

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A Mini Christmas present

...past on the way into work.  Once the competition opened, I changed my usual £50 weekly refuel to a £25 twice-weekly refill, just so I could enter multiple times.  I’m...

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Biofuel backed as the future for oil-heated homes

Credit: MrJub With mid-October witnessing the first Green GB Week to promote action on climate change, OFTEC has received further evidence that its work to develop a low carbon liquid...

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Oil price at seven-year high amid supply concerns

...in sight across crude and products worldwide already,” said Energy Aspects, as quoted by Reuters in a report from this week. “There is a growing acceptance that the oil market...

Opinion

Why the next PM should NOT slash fuel duty

...Cuts would fuel inflation Last week Penny Mordaunt, who was, at that time, in second place in the race to become PM, vowed to slash fuel duty by 50%. But...

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Irish oil group launches annual fundraiser

...with friends, family, or colleagues. A series of informative clips will be published over the next few weeks and will feature AWARE counsellors giving advice on questions to ask someone...

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Londoners urged to scrap their boilers

...Greater London residents last week – and yes, it does include oil-fired boilers! Around 12,700 households in Greater London currently use oil for heating and an estimated 60% of these...

Interview

Essar Oil UK Ltd: from manufacturing complex to energy park

...future. Margaret Major, managing editor of Fuel Oil news and Claudia Weeks, content editor, met with Carlos Rojas, head of commercial at Essar, and Michelle Lewis, corporate affairs director, to...

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Milford Haven – frustration and regret

...had collapsed last week. “For the past four years we have worked tirelessly to secure a positive outcome for the future of the refinery and our workforce. Unfortunately, and despite...

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Strike over but no room for complacency says Unite

The threat of a tanker drivers’ strike was lifted last week when drivers narrowly voted to accept a new pay and conditions offer. Unite, which represents 2000 drivers, said 51%...

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Forecourts adopt GripHero in the fight against COVID-19

In the last week alone, over a thousand forecourts globally have taken Devon-based GripHero up on its offer of providing hand-protection dispensers free to protect customers from the transmission of...

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24/7 staff-free refuelling

TSG UK has launched a new Driver Controlled Delivery (DCD) System that allows fuel to be delivered 24 hours a day, seven days a week, regardless of whether on-site staff...

Opinion

North Sea oil industry in crisis?

...be none, everyone is retreating, people are being laid off at most companies this week and in the coming weeks. Budgets for 2015 are being cut by everyone.” These comments...