UK Mainland
2025 | (2024) | Company | Number of tankers |
1 | (1) | Certas Energy | 800+ |
2 | (2) | Watson Fuels | 293 |
3 | (3) | NWF Fuels | 160 |
4 | (4) | Your NRG | 128 |
5 | (7) | Johnston Oils | 113 |
6 | (6) | Goff Petroleum | 111 |
7= | (8) | Crown Oil | 100 |
7= | (5) | Rix Petroleum | 100 |
9 | (11) | New Era Fuels | 83 |
10 | (9) | WCF Fuels | 78 |
11 | (10) | Ford Fuel Oils | 72 |
12 | (12) | Oilfast | 63 |
13 | (13=) | Mitchell & Webber | 50 |
14 | (13=) | Highland Fuels | 49 |
15 | (16) | WP Group | 48 |
16 | (13=) | Barton Petroleum | 46 |
17= | (17) | Craggs Energy Group | 45 |
17= | (18) | Oil4Wales | 45 |
19 | (19) | Heltor | 44 |
20 | (20) | Gleaner Oils | 43 |
Distributors are ranked by number of tankers supplied to Fuel Oil News in January 2025.
If you feel you should be included in the above list please contact margaret@fueloilnews.co.uk with your latest tanker fleet number
Source: Fuel Oil News February 2025
Republic of Ireland
Rank | Company | Number of tankers |
1 | East Cork Oil | 197 |
2 | Top Oil | 120* |
3 | Corrib Oil | 110** |
4 | Certa Ireland | 101 |
5 | Klass Oil | 53 |
6 | Valero Marketing | 41 |
7 | Tria Energy | 27 |
8 | Sweeney Oil | 24 |
9 | Glen Fuel Services | 21 |
10 | M&J Kelleher | 20 |
11 | Ultima Oil | 18 |
**correct as at 2022
Northern Ireland
Rank | Company | Number of tankers |
1 | LCC Oils | 150* |
2 | Nicholl Oils | 110 |
3 | Patterson Oil | 36 |
4 | Bangor Fuels | 35 |
5 | AH Fuel Oils | 25 |
6= | Morrow Fuels | 18 |
6= | Thompson Fuels | 18 |
8 | WR Kennedy & Sons | 12 |
9 | P Ferguson & Sons | 11 |
Figures, taken on trust, were provided in January/February 2025.
Fuel Oil News respects the wishes of some distributors who chose not to disclose figures.
Source: Fuel Oil News March 2025
Top 10 logistic companies
2019 | (2018) | Company | Number of tankers |
1 | (1) | Hoyer Petrolog | 366 |
2 | (5) | DHL | 225 |
3 | (2) | Turners (Soham) | 215 |
4 | (4) | Wincanton | 190 |
5 | (3) | XPO Logistics | 178 |
6 | (7) | Greenergy Flexigrid | 156 |
7 | (6) | Reynolds Logistics | 145 |
8 | (8) | Suckling Transport | 125 |
9 | (9) | Suttons Transport | 38 |
10 | (-) | Clugston Distribution | 21 |
The list of the top 10 UK fuel logistics companies is based on size of tanker fleet. Figures, which were taken on trust, were provided by the individual companies.
Source: Fuel Oil News August 2019