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Oil heating cheaper than mains gas

Jeremy Hawksley – welcome news for the industry and the 1.5 million UK households who use oil for heating Oil is now the cheapest of all the ...

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Burning oil? Call to make CO alarms law

Campaigners led by Plumb Center, Honeywell and the Katie Haines Memorial Trust, want to see carbon monoxide alarms in every home in England and Wales ...

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StocExpo 2015 Set to Break Records

Last year’s StocExpo broke all records, attracting over 2,940 visitors, making it the most successful show in its history. StocExpo 2015 returns on 17-19 March at ...

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A good Standard of tanker

Very impressed with the performance of its newest tanker, Knowsley-based Standard Fuel Oils has ordered two more.

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Which? reports on heating oil prices

With the price of heating oil at a four-year low, Which? has taken another look at the heating oil market; a market that has seen ...

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Fuel poverty – distributors get together

Helping vulnerable heating oil users – Steve Davis, Midland Fuel Oils and Mark Askew with Tina Costello of Heart of England With the help of the ...

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Greenergy – additional biodiesel production

Last week Greenergy acquired Harvest Biofuels’ biodiesel manufacturing facility at Seal Sands on Teesside. The acquisition of Harvest’s manufacturing assets gives Greenergy additional biodiesel ...

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Adler and Allan’s regional acquisition

Adler and Allan has acquired MTB Environmental Limited at Hamble-le-Rice, Southampton. The acquisition enables the environmental services provider to strengthen its regional presence on the ...

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FPS appoints new regional representative

Having been appointed  as the new FPS regional representative for Yorkshire and the North East of England, Janet Kettlewell has joined the FPS Council. ...

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Making oil-heated homes more energy efficient

The OFTEC team joins the campaign to fight fuel poverty. Last winter (2012/13) there were 18,200 excess winter death in the UK, the majority of which were ...

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Distributor of the Year x 2

The awards were presented to the Brogan Fuels team at the Carden Park Hotel, Chester; Andrew Salton (l) with contract manager David Smialowski Brogan Fuels ...

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Changes at Simon Storage

In changes under the rebrand, Martyn Lyons becomes chief executive of Inter Terminals with Richard Sammons in the new role of executive chairman From January 1...

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Retail duo joins Certas Energy

IAN WELCH HAS 25 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE IN THE DOWNSTREAM OIL INDUSTRY Certas Energy has strengthened its retail team with the appointment of Ian Welch and Gary ...

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Major business win for Maxol

Maxol Lubricants is now supplying Ireland’s Defence Forces with high quality lubrication oils In mid December Maxol Lubricants secured a contract to be sole ...

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JET – exceeding expectations

In his ambassador role, Nicholas Hamilton will be assisting the JET brand with campaigns, promotions and events in 2015 Nicolas Hamilton, who recently saw his brother ...

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Driver trainers give support

Hoyer Petrolog driver trainer Chris Hill spent two weeks in Tanzania delivering a variety of training In its latest link up with Transaid, Hoyer seconded ...

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More couplings now available

The six new Emco Wheaton products seen here will be joined by more variants in 2015 Emco Wheaton has launched six new products within its TODO ...

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Delivering a Speedy service

(l-r): Grant Lockie, Speedy regional director (power) with Jim Williams, northern regional director and Anthony Sharkey, national sales manager, Certas Energy Speedy has chosen Certas ...

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FPS EXPO 2015 – have you booked?

Spaces at FPS EXPO 2015 are filling faster than ever reports the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers. With just over three months to go before the exhibition ...

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£2m funding for Gloucestershire distributor

l-r: – Mark (2nd from left) and Amanda Hobbs at the new depot with Brian Colquhoun, Rob Spearman and Paul Shepard of Clydesdale Bank Hobbs Bros ...

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Brand new depot for Notts

Will Merrick (centre) with members of the Mansfield depot team At the beginning of December, NWF Fuels officially opened its new depot at Mansfield in ...