Crown Oil News & Updates

With all modern diesel engine vehicles such as heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) now required to use a process called selective catalytic reduction (SCR), finding a reliable supplier of AdBlue for your business is of utmost importance.

Crown Oil is a family-run and family-owned business, so we understand the importance of reliable horticultural nursery fuel services for the commercial growing sector, to support and sustain your business.

As a commercial greenhouse heating supplier, we can help with all of your horticultural needs, so whether you need plant nursery heating fuel, greenhouse biodiesel, diesel for heating your greenhouses or lubricants to keep your machinery running smoothly, we can help.

Process oils are used in a number of industries and applications; either as a raw material component or to help with processing. At Crown Oil, we have over 70 years’ experience in the lubricants business. As so, we recognise the vital role process oils play in your business operations. Depending on your requirements, our industry-leading chemists are able to formulate a specific blend to meet your business requirements. Alternatively, we are also an authorised distributor of Total and Addinol oils throughout the UK.

As any driver, who has been driving since the year 2000 or earlier will know, there was a time when fuels at the pump were actually a lot less than the £1+ we pay today. Of course, much of this will be down to the oil price increases, but an even larger chunk of the money we pay out at the pump is in tax which still accounts for much of the price of the fuel we buy, compared to countries such as the United States, which artificially keeps their fuels so much cheaper.

Thursday 9th May 2019 saw a new UK law come into effect that ended a 15-year exemption for diesel bowsers that don’t adhere to ADR road carriage requirements. But what exactly does this new regulation mean? Why is it needed and how can businesses stay compliant? We discuss below.

This Easter, we ran a ‘Guess How Many Easter Eggs Are in the Oil Barrel’ Competition on our Facebook and Twitter social platforms. We donated all of the Easter Eggs to Grace’s Place Children’s Hospice in Bury and gave one lucky winner £50 worth of Love2Shop vouchers.

The transport and business sectors are the UK’s largest and third largest contributors of greenhouse gases, according to the data about CO2 emissions in the most recent report, ‘UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions’ by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.

You may or may not have heard the term non-destructive (NDT) fuel tank testing before. But what you should know is that it’s completely invaluable in protecting your storage tanks, pipework, vessels and other safety-critical components.

The NHS and the Government have stepped up efforts in recent years to ensure more schools have access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs). These potentially life-saving devices have saved millions of lives around the World since being invented by Professor Frank Pantridge. Although there is currently no legal requirement for any companies to have a defibrillator within the workplace, doing so could potentially help to save somebodies life should they suffer from a cardiac arrest whilst at work.

Residents of the Northern and Western Isles are suffering some of the highest levels of fuel poverty in the UK, according to recent statistics.