News
Success despite oil demand & price slump
Leading Hull family business J.R. Rix & Sons Ltd has reported a successful trading year during 2020 despite ‘challenging and uncertain times’ brought about by ...
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Mabanaft rolls out Onroute truckstops
Mabanaft’s new Onroute Truckstops brand is being rolled out across its network of truckstops starting with Junction 29 in Chesterfield. The first thing drivers will ...
News
Prax refinery joins decarbonisation project
As part of the Prax Group’s ongoing commitment to sustainability, Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery has joined the V Net Zero Humber Cluster decarbonisation project.&...
News
Oil & gas investment key to UK transition
Speaking at the launch of their annual Economic Report today, OGUK Chief Executive, Deirdre Michie OBE, has said that the UK oil and gas industry ...
News
HGV drivers value recognised by pay deal
GMB Wincanton HGV members see their essential value recognised by an 11% pay deal with GMB London Region, representing Mechanical offload HGV drivers, agreeing to an 8% ...
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New fleet director to support Suttons growth plans
Suttons Tankers has appointed a new fleet director to further support the strategic growth plans of the business. The [appointment of Steve Hassall, recognised by ...
Wholesale Price Movements & Price Totem
Wholesale Price Movements & Price Totem | Sep 2021
Market Report
Petrochemicals and the unexpected positive impact of the pandemic | Sep 2021
It would be “stating the bleeding obvious” to say that the pandemic has seen both winners and losers in the business world. The oil industry has been no different, although probably, overall, there have been more losers than winners.
News
Guide to funding support for logistics employers
As has been reported through Fuel Oil News (here), the logistics industry is facing a serious shortage of skilled workers. In response, business group Logistics ...
Insight
An industry acquiring
Whilst many businesses in the UK have focused on staying afloat over the past 18 months, some have been riding the acquisition wave, moving from ...
Opinion
Call for 10,000 temporary visas to address driver crisis
Government must prioritise the granting of 10,000 temporary work visas to encourage EU drivers to return to support the UK’s supply chain, according to business ...
News
Extinction Rebellion blockades ExxonMobil terminal
Climate campaigners known as ‘Extinction Rebellion’ blocked a terminal entrance near to the largest oil refinery in the UK yesterday in protest at the Fawley ...
News
Essential conference covers fleet technology, maintenance & compliance
With less than one month until Logistics UK’s Fleet Engineer – the essential one-day conference for anyone responsible for maintaining commercial vehicles – the business group ...
News
Impressive Jet rebrand for service station
Following an extensive refurbishment, the family-owned Hertford Road Service Station in Enfield has re-opened as a JET branded site. Previously BP branded, the popular site ...
News
Stolt Tank Containers opens new depot in Scotland
Stolt Tank Containers (STC) has expanded its global network with the opening of Tank Wash Scotland Ltd, a new ISO tank depot in Grangemouth, Scotland. ...
Opinion
Transportable lighting in the fuel industry
Ken Eddleston, senior lighting specialist at Chalmit, the market-leading manufacturer of lighting for industrial and harsh and hazardous environments, explains to Fuel Oil News why ...
News
Essar in new aviation fuel partnership
Essar Oil (UK) Limited has begun supplying jet fuel directly to airlines at Cardiff Airport, with new deals having already been secured with various carriers ...
Opinion
A reliable and secure supply
John Regan, sales director at the Prax Group, brings us up to date with the groups strategic imperatives that will ensure that both current and ...
Insight
A look at the shape of the future UK downstream oil sector landscape
We are living through a time that has heralded much change and, before considering the future evolution and shape of the UK downstream oil sector, we will remind ourselves of the substantial amount of change that has already occurred in this current millennium.
Analysis
An industry acquiring
Since the first impacts of Covid-19 back in early 2020, we, at Fuel Oil News, have closely followed the sector as it has adapted in the ...
News
Drop in oil product demand highlighted in industry review
UKPIA has today published its annual review of the UK downstream industry. It provides a collection of recent information on the sector from government departments, ...
News
NWF Group eyes acquisitions after second highest profit performance on record
Announcing figures for the year to May 3, 2021, the Nantwich-based fuel, food and feed distributor, NWF Group, has declared them to be ‘another strong set of ...
Wholesale Price Movements & Price Totem
Wholesale Price Movements & Price Totem | Aug 2021
Market Report
The complexity of energy in Japan | Aug 2021
It’s been an occasional tradition of this report to try and link major sporting events to fuel markets! With no spectators and an understandable lack of fanfare, most of us seem to have forgotten that Tokyo is hosting this year’s (delayed) Olympics.