Opinion
The Distributor Debate
...locations. Currently, oil is the most economical solution for off-gas properties. However, oil could face serious competition from technologies such as wood pellet boilers, and air source heat pumps. How...
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Interview
Morrow Fuels – goes the extra mile
...manufacturing steel oil tanks for the domestic heating market. He saw his natural progression as moving more into the oil market, and bought his first distribution tanker in 1988. As...
Insight
Rapidly changing oil market creates pricing and supply issues
...Agency has stated, “send a unified and strong message to global oil markets that there will be no shortfall in supplies.” On 18 March, oil prices hit almost $130 (£99)...
News
Fuel Prices Online™ merges with The Oil Market Journal™
...announced their merger. Both FPO and OMJ provide intraday and settlement oil price information to UK and Irish oil distributors, service stations and other large volume oil buyers. Basil Shourou...
Insight
Oil-price survey forecasts Brent to be above $80 a barrel by end of 2024
According to the majority (53%) of respondents to Bloomberg Intelligence’s February oil-price survey, Brent oil is expected to be above $80 a barrel at the end of 2024 – the...
Opinion
North Sea oil industry in crisis?
...Sea being profitable as oil is below $60 per barrel. “It is almost impossible to make money at these oil prices,” says Mr Allan, director of Premier Oil in addition...
Opinion
Preparing for a new oil world
Boris Ivanov Boris Ivanov, founder of GPB Global Resources discusses how the fuel oil industry can begin to prepare for the new oil world. With BP cutting 10,000 jobs and...
Market Report
Prices and predictions – what does 2025 have in store?
...own forecasts for 2024 oil prices. Our headline prediction in Jan ’24 was for oil prices to “trend sideways and stay in the $70-$80 per barrel mark”. Arguably this was...
Insight
Heating future: prospects for kerosene and HVO
...Kerosene: This product heralded the age of the oil industry in the late 19th century when it was sold as lamp oil. The balance of probability is that its use...
Opinion
Longer term impacts of coronavirus on the UK and Ireland’s oil industry
...managing director of GPB Global Resources B.V., the broader impacts of coronavirus on the oil industry Plummeting oil prices have had worldwide consequences but have been particularly painful for the...
Opinion
“Do you agree with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) that the Province should have more oil buying clubs?”
...more oil buying clubs, there will inevitably be more – batten down the hatches!” For further comment see the Value Oils blog – www.valueoils.com/blog/home-heating/heating-oil-buying-groups-2/ Joe Bradley, Bradley Fuels “I don’t...
Opinion
OGUK welcomes climate report impetus
...to cut emissions from oil and gas production, currently totalling about 18.5m tonnes a year, to net zero by 2050. This could include the electrification of offshore oil and gas...
News
Oil theft – oil industry shows support with donation
...Northern Ireland Oil Federation (NIOF) resulted in Solo Direct offering to give the unit 1,000 litres of oil to help during this difficult time. With £1,000 worth of oil stolen...
News
Theft threat?
When the price of crude oil rises, reports of oil theft increase. Alex Porter spoke to distributors about the situation in their area A recent article on the Fuel Oil...
Insight
No easy decisions at Whitegate
...support the country’s oil needs is Whitegate. Oil refining on the island of Ireland Originally commissioned in 1959, Whitegate has a distillation capacity of 71,000 bpd. One third of output...
News
Unprecedented demand creates temporary oil shortage in Ireland
The recent extreme weather has caused a massive surge in demand for home heating oil in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, creating temporary shortages with distributors forced...
News
BSI publishes revised fuel oils standard to avoid safety and performance issues
...provides detailed, application-specific, fuel oil specifications to reflect the need for changes in end users’ equipment, legislation, market use and the application specific use of fuel oils and fuel oil...
News
Oil recycling specialist Slicker expands further with Oil Monster acquisition
...with their own carbon cutting and sustainability agenda, re-refining their waste oil back into base oil through our own re-refinery.” “We welcome everyone at Oil Monster into the Slicker family...