September 2020

Claire Perry, new Minister at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)Claire Perry has been announced as the new Minister at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) following a post election cabinet reshuffle.Perry is taking...

EUA Proposals The Wrong Approach To Tackling Fuel Poverty, Says OFTECThe Oil Firing Technical Association (OFTEC), which represents the oil heating industry in the UK, has responded to Mike Foster, Chief Executive of the Energy and Utilities Alliance’s (EUA) call...

Jeremy HawksleyThe government’s flagship domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme is a costly and unrealistic solution to lowering carbon emissions, which is failing to attract consumer support.That’s the opinion of The Oil Firing Technical Association (OFTEC), following the publication of...

WestminsterThe latest data on UK domestic heating costs shows that heating oil is the only primary heating fuel to have fallen in price since 2011, making it the cheapest option for most off gas grid households and, if the current...

Gas Safety Trust Welcomes Private Rented CO Alarm AssistanceThe Gas Safety Trust has welcomed the recent announcement by Fire Minister Penny Mordaunt confirming a £3m fund to support the roll-out of smoke and carbon monoxide / CO alarm in the private...

Oil explorer, Providence Resources, led by Tony O’Reilly Junior stated that it has successfully defended a legal claim by offshore drilling company Transocean.Transocean, a Swiss Based firm, carried out drilling work on Providence’s oil and gas prospect at Barryroe but...

Providence Resources, an Irish based oil and gas exploration company, has completed their preliminary analysis of its Druid prospect, yielding negative results.Druid, 220 kilometres off the south west coast of Ireland, had been thought to contain 3.2 billion barrels of...