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Gulf sponsors motoring event

Marketed by Certas Energy in Britain, the Gulf brand once again supported this year’s Layer Marney Cup. Certas Energy supplies fuel to over 1,200 service stations The Layer Marney Cup, an historic fuel consumption trial, was recreated last month with around 50 cars completing a 72-mile route through the Essex countryside.

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Vote of confidence for Mabanaft

How customers rate their performance really matters to Mabanaft. The company carries out regular surveys to keep up to date with customers’ views and ensure that high standards are being consistently met and maintained. Here they share the findings from their 2016 survey.

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New offices for Certas Energy

Certas Energy, which will occupy 3000 sq ft of the ground floor, is the first company to sign up for space in Slough’s nine-storey landmark Next Thursday (1st September) Certas Energy will move from its regional office at Egham in Surrey to The Switch, a newly refurbished suite of A-grade offices situated in Slough.

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Gold awards for Phillips 66

Helen Evans, brand and communications coordinator at Phillips 66, was presented with the award during a ceremony at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole hotel In recognition of its occupational health & safety and fleet safety records Phillips 66 took two gold awards at the 2016 RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards, the 60th anniversary of the awards.

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Up to speed with transport matters?

The 2016 Freight Transport Association (FTA) Transport Manager conferences start in Chepstow on Wednesday 14th September 

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New own brand lubricant launched

Kerax is among Rob Austin’s sponsors for the 2016/17 season of the British Touring Car Championships. Kerax launched its own brand lubricant Kerax HyperDrive at Automechanika 2016 in Birmingham.

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Engineering company fuels Asda

The Asda project at East Retford was completed in a 10 week time frame with the site handed over at the end of last month The Premier Group, the UK’s largest independent fuel engineering company, has completed its first project as part of its new contract with Asda.

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Eliminating cross-contamination

Simple to use – the OptiMate electronic metering system eliminates cross-contamination MechTronic’s aim is to eliminate cross-contamination for the road tanker industry with the easy integration of VisiLevel and OptiMate, helping to safeguard fuel oil distributors’ product from costly cross-contamination.

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Essar delivers direct to Emirates

The Essar marketing team at Manchester Airport – Simon Jones, sales support manager, Carlos Rojas, head of marketing strategy, Adam Brayne, business development manager and Mithlesh Sahani, head of supply Essar Oil (UK) has signed its first agreement for the direct supply of aviation fuel to a commercial carrier, with a major deal having been agreed with Emirates airline at Manchester Airport Tuesday (9th August).

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Irving Oil to acquire Whitegate

Built in 1959 Whitegate is Ireland’s sole refinery, it processes up to 75,000 barrels of crude oil per day, producing transportation and heating fuels.  It has a workforce of 160 employees as well as many contract personnel Last week Canadian-owned Irving Oil announced an agreement had been reached with Phillips 66 to acquire its Whitegate refinery.

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Thames Oilport – additional diesel tankage

Thames Oilport is a deep-water fuel terminal located on the site of the former Coryton refinery, giving direct access to the global fuel supply market and to the world’s most competitive new refineries Thames Oilport is to expand the amount of tankage to be used for diesel storage, bringing into use a further 56,000 cbm of tankage from Q1 2017.

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Two acquisitions in one week

Just four days after announcing an agreement to purchase Bolton-based forecourt operator Synergie Holdings, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is to also purchase Roadside Group Limited.

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Acumen for Reynolds

On 1st August 2016 the John Reynolds Group and UK Credit Insurance Specialists officially merged to form Acumen Credit Insurance Brokers Ltd.

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Annual cricket day for fuel suppliers

Over 100 guests enjoyed Park Garage Group’s annual cricket day at Addiscombe Cricket Club in East Croydon Certas Energy and Valero were among the team sponsors for Park Garage Group’s annual cricket day for staff, commission operators and suppliers.

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‘Clear plans for growth’ as BP puts assets up for sale

Earlier this week BP was the first oil major to report its Q2 results reporting a loss that missed estimates due to lower refining margins and a $61.6 billion  charge relating to the Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010.

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ESL Fuels hits one billion litre sales for Ultra 35

Established in 1999, initially as one of the first commercial pioneers of biodiesel, ESL Fuels is a blender and supplier that specialises in the manufacture of innovative fuel products such as Ultra 35 Manufactured at Stanlow using high quality virgin grade distillate, Ultra 35 is specifically designed to give best performance as a heating oil rather than trying to achieve the compromise of being a heating oil and off road engine oil.

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More POWERful women needed to work in energy

The importance of women in energy event was co-chaired by US deputy secretary of energy, Dr Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall (l) and Louise Kingham OBE FEI, Energy Institute chief executive Last week the Energy Institute and POWERful Women hosted a roundtable discussion on ‘The importance of women in energy’ to address the barriers facing women working in the global energy sector.

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Introducing the United Oils

Gulf Oil’s vice president international, Frank Rutten was joined at the event by Arthur Liu, managing director of Gulf Oil China, Manchester United’s commercial director Jamie Reigle together with a number of first team players including Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Ander Herrera and Wayne Rooney In a recent partnership deal Gulf Oil International has become Manchester United’s official global lubricant and fuel retail partner. 

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HOYER Petrolog announces agreement with BP

The agreement with BP is ‘a significant step in HOYER achieving its strategic growth objectives for both the UK and across Europe’ said Mark Binns, chairman of Hoyer Petrolog UK HOYER has entered into a long term agreement with BP to provide bulk fuel transport and logistics services throughout the UK.

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INEOS – confidence in the UK economy

In one of the first major UK investment decisions post the Brexit vote, INEOS announced a multi million pound investment in its Hull manufacturing plant.

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Former Shell man named as EI’s president-elect

The Energy Institute’s president-elect Malcolm Brinded looks forward to the ‘exhilarating task’ Malcolm Brinded CBE FREng FEI has taken on the role of president-elect at the Energy Institute (EI). 

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Super growth for State Oil

Members of the State Oil team attended the event which took place at Mercedes-Benz World in Weybridge The State Oil Group – parent of Harvest Energy and Prax Petroleum – was amongst the finalists at the Surrey Super Growth Awards held earlier this month.

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Total support for hypercar 

Total volume for the AM-RB 001 will be between 99 and 150 road cars inclusive of all remaining prototypes and 25 track-only versions, with first deliveries commencing in 2018   (Credit:  Aston Martin) Total has supported partners Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing at the unveiling of a ground breaking hypercar codenamed AM-RB 001.