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Sidney Gilmore
...(FPS – now known as UKIFDA). Known to a great many in the sector as both the founder of Gilmore Fuel Oils and as the President of the FPS following...
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TOTY 2023 The runners up: highlighting three very special entries
...the title to joint winners. The following pages showcase our three runners up and other entry highlights. Small but perfectly formed –the fantastic mini tanker from Ferguson Fuel Oils •...
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Certas Energy opens new depot in East Cowes
...the Vectis Oils brand, it changed names a number of times, with Certas Energy taking over ten years ago. Business account manager Vickie Hyde, whose father Peter Grannum set up...
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Pace Fuelcare unveils new Ipswich depot
...of quality fuel for commercial, agricultural and domestic customers across south east Anglia. Key figures at Pace Fuelcare’s parent company, GB Oils, including Sam Chambers, chairman, Paul Williams, director, Simon...
Analysis
FON Fantasy Football League– all to play for!
...to second placed Mark Clouter, UK General Manager from Wessex Petroleum (WP Group). September – Lee Carrack, National Account Manager at Tate Oils. October – Ruben Lancaster of Blend took...
Opinion
Dodgy tanks – do you refuse to fill?
...meet OFTEC rules and regulations. Many non-conforming tanks are good installations but can’t conform as space won’t allow it.” Grant Lockie, Johnston Oils, Edinburgh “We deliver to many different locations,...
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UM Terminals makes senior appointment
...metres of bulk liquid storage, but the plan is to grow this to over 400,000 cubic metres. Product solutions include vegetable oils, industrial, food and feed, chemical, fertiliser, fuels, biofuels...
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Alpeco’s new system already in operation
...computer which has attained full UK approval and has been successfully undergoing trials with Nolan Oils on its new COBO tanker since September 2020. Alpeco’s TEX FLOW system has been...
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Distributor joins forces with police
A Hertfordshire distributor has partnered with the police in a bid to help local residents protect their heating oil. Stevenage Oils has been distributing leaflets to customers containing practical advice...
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UM Terminals invests millions in its Liverpool terminal
...Dock, reducing delays due to congested shipping berths. Expansion The investment has also supported UM Terminals’ expansion into a broader range of products which now includes chemicals, industrial oils, vegetable...
Insight
Marine bunkering – fuel for a vital activity
...oils. Sulphur scrubbers, which clean the ship’s exhaust emissions, may offer a partial solution, but the logistics around their large/wide scale installation are as yet relatively unknown. In the longer...
Opinion
A New Year’s wish for joined up thinking for fuel distribution
...Authority’s recommendation that tariffs on imports of hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO) biodiesel be removed was accepted by the Secretary of State for International Trade. One of the reasons given was...
Analysis
An industry acquiring
...us more about the recent acquisitions of Jones Oil and Campus Oils Daire Keating, managing director cards, Austria & Ireland, DCC Retail & Oil, said: “We are very excited about...
Interview
Rawlings Fuels putting the customer first
Hampshire-based Rawlings Fuels is an independent supplier of fuel oils delivering to domestic and commercial customers, including farms and agricultural companies. Its beginnings were in a transport company, from which...
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A look at the shape of the future UK downstream oil sector landscape
...Oils, and then, over the ensuing 15 years, embarked on an ambitious distributor acquisition programme, which included the equity distributor businesses of Shell (Shell Direct), Texaco and Total (Total Butler). ...
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Tasca acquisition fuels further growth
...an estimated £7m last year and staff levels rose by 50-60% during the same period. Tasca’s customers include Otley-based Tate Fuel Oils, Peak Fuels from Derbyshire and GB Oils. ....
Opinion
Is the heating oil market threatened by the government’s decision not to support bioliquids under the renewable heat incentive?
...such we continue to promote the benefits of fuel oils and derivatives to our customers, while keeping an eye on the impact new technologies are having in our market place...
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Your charity nominations
...each to Macmillan, Mind and Midlands Air Ambulance charities. Mark Spence, who worked in the oil industry for many years at GB Oils and Standard Fuel Oils commented: “Macmillan were...