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Analysis

A year in the wholesale markets

...customer’s needs and expectations and can pinpoint any areas for improvement.” Mabanaft is the trading division of Marquard & Bahls, an independent and privately owned petroleum company. The business encompasses...
Blaid raybould _ greenergy_

News

Fuel industry people moves – April 2025

...trading operations, and in his latest position he had responsibility for their commercial operations of renewable fuels globally. With his previous experience working across various areas of the industry, Blaid...
Our latest look at the changing downstream landscape

Insight

UK Downstream: the changing landscape

...the UK aviation fuel sector – Mabanaft, World Fuels and the world’s largest oil trading group, Vitol. Demand is not expected to recover to pre-covid levels until around 2024, and,...
Business planning for growth or exit.

Knowledge

Creating business value through a clear roadmap 

...As a result of the relatively recent uptick in trading performance throughout the COVID period, there is no shortage of cash-rich businesses looking to achieve growth through key acquisitions.  Happily,...
Cyber security

Knowledge

Cyber risks: Are fuel distributors vulnerable?

...advice. Pen Underwriting trading as OAMPS Hazardous Industries accepts no liability for any inaccuracy, omission or mistake in this publication, nor will we be responsible for any loss which may...

News

Could heating oil prices be frozen?

...a price freeze. According to the 2011 Office of Fair Trading report into the off-grid energy market, over 90% of the fluctuation in the price of heating oil is based...

News

Essar Oil UK announces senior appointment

...having served as chief executive of Mabanaft (Germany) and Litasco (Switzerland), as well as spending 27 years with BP, including as group vice president of global oil supply & trading....

News

Backing a certainty

...compliance culture driven by our dedicated Safety F1rst and Doing the Right Thing (compliance) campaigns. And we have developed strong and proactive relationships with the OFT, Trading Standards, etc. “However,...

News

The distributor offer revisited

...highlighted in the off-grid energy study published by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in October 2011, which found that: _______________________________________________________________________ 79% of respondents were very/fairly satisfied with heating oil...
In Conversation with The Oil Lady

Interview

In Conversation with The Oil Lady

...went.” The importance of team “The 4th of July 2021, Independence Day, was our first official day of trading and doing deliveries ourselves. At the start we struggled for a...
Moorland Fuels:20 years and still growing strong!

Interview

Moorland Fuels:20 years and still growing strong!

...including tickets, orders, and invoices! After a year of trading, they were able to take on a full-time driver. Two years later, the first office staff joined, and the company...

News

The Prax Group acquisition, appointments and securitisation

The Prax Group, a leading independent oil refining, trading, storage, distribution and retail conglomerate dealing in petroleum products and bio-fuels, has announced that it has successfully completed the strategic acquisition...