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Biofuels producer completes acquisition
Olleco announced last week that the company had completed its acquisition of Convert2Green. The UK’s largest converter of used cooking oil and food waste into renewable energy, the acquisition...
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Annual lunch celebrate 100 years of the CBA
...members and guests of the Chemical Business Association for your generosity and support at the Annual Lunch last week. With your support we are delighted to have raised an AMAZING...
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A Day in the Life… Hannah Ward
...last me all week! MY TYPICAL DAY… A typical day at Certas will start with me logging on to all my systems, checking my emails and updating my to-do-list for...
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Calls for clarity on recent Budget announcements
Relief Last week’s budget announcement brought relief to agriculture, rail, fish farming and non-commercial heating with all being exempt from the abolishment of the red diesel subsidy. Whilst this news...
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The latest oil industry statistics
Last week UKPIA published its annual review of the downstream oil industry. Now in its sixteenth year of publication, the 2018 Statistical Review is a valuable compilation of UK downstream...
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Argent Energy in big green jobs blow
...a matter of weeks after the company confirmed it is set to mothball the plant by the end of May.” “Closure would be a devastating blow to the workers and their...
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Liquid fuel distribution sector gears up to major networking event
...less than a week until the new format UKIFDA Show & Conference, taking place on 10th May 2023 at CBS Arena in Coventry, organiser and trade association the UK and...
Opinion
Renovare Fuels: establishing the pathway towards a greener future
London-based Renovare Fuels, designs, manufactures, and markets a new technology for converting biogas into liquid fuel. Claudia Weeks, Community Content Lead for Fuel Oil News, spoke with the company’s Chairman,...
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A lubricants package that delivers
...in six weeks he can make a £10,000 profit. With the minimum order being just a pallet, entering the own brand lubricants market may be easier than you think. Taking...
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Tackling fuel tank contamination
...world’s largest fuel producers). Testing of B7 diesel showed after more than 1 week, water content was as low as 40ppm. The untreated sample tested at 363ppm. Models are available...
Opinion
New UK oil essential for low carbon future
...UK’s next big oil field development, sent shockwaves through our industry last week. And when I say ‘our industry’ I’m thinking not so much about the companies involved in oil...
Interview
Compass Fuel Oils: a new depot facilitates further growth
...they have now officially opened their brand-new depot. Claudia Weeks, content lead for Fuel Oil News, spoke with Marcus Dandy, managing director at Compass Fuel Oils. The history of Compass...
Insight
Mistletoe and Wine!
...I hope that UKIFDA has been helpful this year. I know the whole team has worked extremely hard, and I believe we have achieved quite a lot. A few weeks...
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ESL Fuels Biofuel Market Update – Q1 2025
...more than $310/mt (23 ppl) over the following six-week period to a Q1 low of $1655 mt (102 ppl). By the end of Q1, HVO (UCO) had reversed some of...
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New head of global sales & marketing for Fairbanks
Tony Mills joins Fairbanks with a ‘large network of contacts’ Last week Tony Mills joined Fairbanks to assist with the delivery of the company’s global sales and marketing strategy. Formerly...
Insight
The UK energy sector: What is the direction of travel?
...snapshot of what they would like to do, with few policy details. As a result, we will only see the clear picture emerge in the coming weeks as the new...
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Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils help create 30 HGV drivers for local businesses
...find the HGV drivers they need to keep their businesses growing and support the local economy. HGV Skills Bootcamps The HGV Skills Bootcamps are flexible courses of up to 16 weeks,...
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Could heating oil prices be frozen?
...(Disappointingly, the Breagh field ceased operation only a few weeks after it came online, with developers citing technical problems and Buzzard experienced production problems for the second year in a...