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Sun 10 Dec 2017 11:57
Essar Fuels - Volts

Anybody used these. New one took over existing Gulf station. Turns out they have a few dotted around. Cutting out the middle man/woman

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Sun 10 Dec 2017 17:52
Essar Fuels - Happy Blue!

There is one site near me. A very secondary station with a reputation for water in the tanks and very expensive. I would look at the owners/operators rather than the brand when buying.

I once bought fuel in London from an old Esso site before a drive home up the M1. The car was getting quite lumpy about 30 miles up the motorway and it was clear that there was water or diesel in the petrol. Only buy from stations with a high throughput or modern facilities.

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Sun 10 Dec 2017 18:01
Essar Fuels - RT

It's just branding, much like Shell, Esso, Texaco, Elf etc - Essar own the UK's 2nd biggest refinery at Stanlow in Cheshire.

Use supermarket fuel to get fresh, high throughput fuel.

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Sun 10 Dec 2017 18:25
Essar Fuels - galileo

I use the Shell 1/4 mile from home, it's on a main route to M62 and patronised by lots of taxis and the Ambulance station, often have a delivery tanker in there so must be fresh!

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Mon 11 Dec 2017 10:40
Essar Fuels - 72 dudes

Use supermarket fuel to get fresh, high throughput fuel.

Can confirm this, we get at least one tanker per day, delivery is around 380,000 litres for a full load, split roughly 60:40 diesel to unleaded. I don't buy Super Unleaded there for my SLK though, very slow seller!!

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Mon 11 Dec 2017 14:04
Essar Fuels - Falkirk Bairn

>>delivery is around 380,000 litres for a full load,

380K litres = 83,000 gallons approx

A UK Road tanker normally carries about 7 / 8,000 gallons as there

is a 44 tonne limit.

Looks like 1 too many zeros

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Mon 11 Dec 2017 18:21
Essar Fuels - 72 dudes

>>delivery is around 380,000 litres for a full load,

380K litres = 83,000 gallons approx

A UK Road tanker normally carries about 7 / 8,000 gallons as there

is a 44 tonne limit.

Looks like 1 too many zeros

Yep, absolutely right FB, we record the delivery in decilitres which threw me, we actually get between 37700 and 38300 from a full tanker.

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Mon 11 Dec 2017 10:34
Essar Fuels - craig-pd130

They've taken over a couple of Esso stations around here - the one at the foot of the Cat & Fiddle being the most notable. Although there are still Esso stations in the area.

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Mon 11 Dec 2017 16:15
Essar Fuels - Falkirk Bairn

Apparently Essar are an up & coming refiner - they own a couple of Mega refiniries in India. Other mega refineries are in the Gulf.

In the UK refineries fall into 2 camps

1) Closed - including Teeside, Isle of Grain, Coryton, a a site in South Wales

2)Old sites bumping along with only modest investment - Grangemouth (BP now Ineos+Chinese). Total in Lincolnshire (closed down half crude distillation of late), Fawley (Esso Mega site), Stanlow sold to Essar, South Wales - Valero bought Chevron, Singaporean bought Murco

We now depend for a lot from Rotterdam in the future bringing in refined petrol & diesel from India, Middle East etc

It is about 65 years ago the UK Govt encouraged building refineries rather than be dependent on imports from unstable sources...........& that is the direction we are heading in the near future.

Security of supply, electricity, petrol, diesel, gas seems to be buy the cheapest rather than create a stable supply & UK jobs.... I rest my case.

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Wed 13 Dec 2017 11:38
Essar Fuels - concrete

I agree FB. I cannot see any logic in not securing vital supplies within our own country. Even if it cost a few percent more, the effect on the econmy would be very good. Extra jobs all round and a stable supply line. Just like food and other supplies I am sure with some joined up thinking and some affort we could be as self sufficient as possible with lots of positive benefits. Hold on, isn't that what govenments are for???? I rest my case too.

Cheers Concrete

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Wed 13 Dec 2017 12:20
Essar Fuels - RT

I agree FB. I cannot see any logic in not securing vital supplies within our own country. Even if it cost a few percent more, the effect on the econmy would be very good. Extra jobs all round and a stable supply line. Just like food and other supplies I am sure with some joined up thinking and some affort we could be as self sufficient as possible with lots of positive benefits. Hold on, isn't that what govenments are for???? I rest my case too.

Cheers Concrete

Securing vital supplies of road fuel not only involves refining it ourselves but extracting it ourselves - North Sea oil is waning and anyway is too fine a quality to make fuel with, so better to export it at a price premium and import cheaper, coa***r oil from abroad.

You could appy the same logic to food, we should grow all our own - and everything else we import from around the world - wouldn't matter then if we left the EU or not!

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