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SEPTEMBER 2013 UKPIA – REFINING UPDATE A SMOOTHER OPERATION THE AGRICULTURAL MARKET Sponsors of BTCC Rob Austin Racing Team A company driven for 2013 Season by proven results FAST's fuel additives are concentrated, technically-driven products designed to match or improve upon the best in class for any application. TE B ST A E L D A N D N P R O V E Domestic Road Transport Marine Private & Commercial Off Road Motor Sports Technical All year round & Static Applications & Enthusiasts Support & Training additive solutions Contact your fuel supplier or machinery specialist Fuel Additive Science Technologies Ltd. Like us on Unit 29 Atcham Business Park, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY4 4UG • Office: +44 (0) 1743 761415 • Fax: +44 (0) 1743 761075 Facebook Block A, Unit 7, Airside Enterprise Centre, Swords, Co. Dublin • Office: +353 (0) 1 808 4805 • Fax: +353 (0) 1 808 4789 Follow us For more information please e-mail [email protected] or visit www.fastexocet.co.uk on Twitter A healthy appetite for safety Safety – whether process or personal – company’s health and safety procedures The monthly magazine for the fuel distribution, storage and does not happen by accident as those need to be dipped into and sampled on a marketing industry in the UK and Ireland. in the fuel distribution industry are well regular basis to ensure they still contain all aware. the right ingredients. In a recent discussion on LinkedIn, Of course, with the proof of the 4-7 NEWS John Reynolds, managing director of pudding being in the eating – it is not Reynolds Training Services, which works always possible to be totally sure that a 9 PORTLAND MARKET REPORT with the Tank Storage Association, Vopak, policy is a success until the result of your Simon Storage, BP, Chevron and Top Oil, efforts have been examined. In fuel 10-11 THE AGRICULTURAL MARKET used the rather interesting distribution no one wants analogy of a fondue to taste the pudding, where 13 TALKING POINT fountain trickling down prevention is defi nitely Is there a market for building vehicles that run on from the top, to illustrate preferred to cure! alternative fuels? how good process safety As nights begin to 15,17,19 A SMOOTHER OPERATION starts in the boardroom draw in, this issue of Fuel Safer, more effi cient and cost effective operations permeating every staff Oil News has an emphasis layer as it fl ows from top on safety, effi ciency and 18 TELEMATICS to bottom. cost effectiveness. “Making A health and profi t is important, but 21,23 SAFETY CLOTHING safety policy can never safety is crucial,” said John. be perfect; indeed to “After all, a process will 24 INSURANCE ISSUES be effective it must be be further delayed by an Is your business fully insured? a moveable feast. A avoidable accident.” 25 INSIDE OUT The changing world of the oil trader 26 THE PRICING PAGE Jonathan Portman, a welder and fabricator with Road Tankers Northern inspects the inside of a new tank. For more information on tankers and road safety, please go to page 15. Contact us 01565 653283 Founded in 1977 by James Smith www.fueloilnews.co.uk Sales director Subscriptions Jonathan Hibbert Sandra Curties Published by Managing director [email protected] [email protected] Ashley & Dumville Publishing Ltd, Nick Smith Caledonian House, Tatton Street, Business development manager Annual subscription for the UK & Knutsford, Cheshire News desk / Editor Linda Farrow Republic of Ireland is priced at £92 WA16 6AG Jane Hughes [email protected] or €109 inc. p&p. Overseas: £109 or [email protected] €129. Back issues: £8 per copy. Staff writer Deputy editor Aine Faherty Credit card payments Liz Boardman [email protected] 01565 653283 [email protected] WWALK,ALK, JJOG,OG, RRUN,UN, CCLIMB,LIMB, CCYCLE!YCLE! YEARBOOK & DIRECTORY 2013 Over the years, we’ve supported some If you need to fi nd an brilliant fundraising efforts for many equipment supplier or fantastic causes. service quickly, consult your If you are raising money for charity, Fuel Oil News Directory we’d like to help you. Please email: [email protected] DETAILS OF THE NEXT EVENT COMING SOON 01565 653283 ASHLEY & DUMVILLE LTD www.fueloilnews.co.uk/category/directory COMMUNITY & CHARITY FUND Fuel Oil News | September 2013 3 September 2013 Volume 36 No 9 ISSN 1757-1057 News UK REFINING – ONGOING DISCUSSIONS Fuel Oil News last spoke to Chris Hunt, director context of road transport fuels, the definition of general of UKPIA, in the April 2012 issue – UK what constitutes ‘green’ has also become more refining – hunting for answers – when he was complex because of the need to account for optimistic and firmly of the belief that ‘a healthy, ‘wells to wheels’ emissions analysis rather than robust oil refining industry’ was achievable. Last just those at the tailpipe. challenges it faces. month, editor Jane Hughes quizzed him again Having our own refining industry offers this Energy minister Michael Fallon is fully about the UK’s refining industry. country optimum flexibility; there have been no briefed; he understands the issues and is major outages in transport fuel and we haven’t extremely supportive. Has your opinion about the UK’s refining let customers down, even when Coryton was lost The UK’s remaining refineries may not be industry changed since we last spoke? last year, or during the Buncefield crisis. state of the art compared with the newer Middle No, we’re still enthusiastic. With both With a robust structure and indigenous Eastern and Asian ones, but they’re far removed independent and government projections refining, our energy security has not been an from the older, simpler European refineries, and showing no significant substitute for oil-based issue in the past. Government now appreciates given the opportunity to compete fairly, do still transport fuels up to 2030 and beyond, it will be that unless this precious industry is looked after, offer a sustainable refining base. up to our industry to continue to energise our this may no longer be the case. DECC’s call for evidence about the role of lives and keep us moving. the refining and fuel import sectors closed in mid We’re not asking for favours or grants, but Following recent reports, do you believe July and a refining strategy policy statement is we do seek the best outcome and a legislative our government is any nearer to ’fully due in the autumn. level playing field for this magnificent industry. recognising and understanding the vital contribution of the UK’s oil industry to our Why does Europe appear to be penalising What has made the greenest government energy security’? its refining industry? ever appear to have shifted its thinking on Yes, I’m very pleased to say that over the In its drive for renewables and climate change fossil fuels? last 10 months, DECC has recognised the targets, Europe sought political ’leadership’ Reality! In the 90s, grand, elaborate targets value of UK refining. The recent Purvin & on climate change reduction, going gung were set to address climate change and embrace Gertz report (www.ukpia.com/files/pdf/ ho for ambitious plans that weren’t properly renewable technologies; but as green ambition therolefutureoftheukrefiningsector.pdf) thought through in terms of the impact on EU has bumped into reality over the last two provided government with a robust third party manufacturing subject to global competition. decades, these have had to be revised. In the view on the benefits of UK refining and the Showing global leadership in Europe is great but 4 Fuel Oil News | September 2013 Continued on page 6 www.vopak.co.uk Added safety for Speedy Fuels A top score oad Tankers Northern recently supplied this brand new 42,800 litre, 6- compartment, tri-axle Paul Martin, joint managing director of tank trailer to Speedy Fuels & Lubricants, part of the Crown Oil group. Reynolds Trade Credit congratulates Paul R As well as an Emco Wheaton bottom loading manifold and DataPlus MKII electronic Vian, managing director of GB Oils, on metering system, the company requested a pneumatic handrail for added safety on this tanker. being the top scorer at the company’s Operating as a nationwide supplier of kerosene and other fuels, with a base at Iver in recent golf day. See also page 24. Buckinghamshire, Speedy Fuels & Lubricants specialises in delivering around the London area. Earlier this year, RTN also built a 25,000 litre 8 x 4 tanker on a DAF chassis for the company. To fi nd out how businesses benefi t from safer and more effi cient operations see pages 15-24. Prax Petroleum is one of the largest independent oil importers and traders in the UK. Call our sales team now for the best spot quotes, supply contracts and pricing options. Contact us on: 01932 843354 www.praxpetroleum.com Prax House, Horizon Business Village, 1 Brooklands Road, Weybridge Surrey KT13 0TJ Fuel Oil News | September 2013 5 News continued from page 4 In April, the EC said it planned to complete not if it’s putting your businesses out of business Fitness Checks on the region’s refining industry and exporting emissions overseas! in September 2014. Energy minister Michael Last October Wood Mackenzie reported The collapse of Petroplus was a big wake up Fallon said that may be ‘too little, too late and on the Impact of FQD crude GHG call for Europe, bringing governments a glimpse risked further refinery closures’. differentiation for Europia. There are of reality – yes, refineries can close! Again it was DECC and UKPIA have stepped up the worries that discrimination of crudes will a case of politics v reality.
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