BOSS launches new website The British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS) has unveiled its new website at www.bossuk.org.
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The new site aims to provide BOSS’s police and petrol retail partners with a comprehensive information resource as well as informing visitors about the campaigning work that BOSS undertakes in order to combat crime on petrol station forecourts across Britain. Kevin Eastwood, executive director of BOSS, said: “We are working hard to increase public awareness of BOSS and the work we carry out with our partners to combat forecourt crime. Our new website is an important part of that effort.” For more information, please visit www.bossuk.org.
KPS launches nextgeneration pipe for LPG Market leading petrol pipe manufacturer KPS launches the firstever plastic pipe for LPG. The pipe will break new ground for the company, providing a world market potential valued at €3 million per annum. KPS has brought its successful, ATEX-compliant pipe technology to the LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) fuel market. The LPG pipe, offering the same unique conductive properties as KPS’s petrol pipes, is set to be the new benchmark on the market. The pipes presently used for LPG fuel are either made entirely from steel or from steel with a plastic coating, explains Fredrik Hellner, Sales & Marketing Director. Corrosion, both external and internal, is a big problem and poses a significant risk for leakages and damage to cars and dispensers. Our 22
pipes are corrosion-free, and therefore offer considerable advantages in terms of both safety, durability and cost efficiency. KPS’s LPG pipe is a 100 per cent plastic pipe with a permeation liner and a conductive inner layer. Therefore, they are corrosion free and come at a very competitive price. The semi-flexible pipes are easily rolled out on site from one end to the other, and no welding is needed. “At a recent installation in France, the installation of our LPG pipes took less than one day, including pressure testing of the pipes”, Fredrik Hellner continues. This represents enormous savings in cost and time compared to other types of pipes.
Substantial growth opportunities Because of its green properties as a fuel, the market for LPG is growing at a rate of approximately 8 to 10 per cent per year. It is one of the most commonly used green fuels in Italy, Poland and Turkey, and is also on the rise in France, the United Kingdom and Germany – all key markets for KPS. LPG fuel is available at over 50 000 filling stations globally today, says Fredrik Hellner. Our new LPG pipe thus promises considerable growth opportunities and we estimate the market potential at €3 million per year. The KPS LPG pipe will be presented at the Petrol Station 2009 exhibition in Warsaw between 6-8 of May and at AEGL in Vienna between 13-15 of May. For more information, please contact: Fredrik Hellner Sales & Marketing Director Fredrik.hellner@kpsystem.com Tel: +46 702 85 75 21
Janet Ashdown appointed president of UKPIA Janet Ashdown, head of UK Fuels for BP Oil UK, has been appointed President of the UK Petroleum Industry Association, the trade association representing the nine
main oil refiners in the UK. She succeeds the outgoing President Nick Thomas of ExxonMobil. Janet joined BP as a graduate trainee in refining during the 1980s. Since then she has undertaken a number of roles including product trading based in New York, London and Paris, and at BP's Corporate Headquarters in the Gas & Power and European Retail and Commercial Fuels Businesses. Janet commented “I am delighted to be taking over as President in this the 30th anniversary year of UKPIA’s formation. I look forward to working with my fellow Council members and with the UKPIA Secretariat to address the big challenges facing the UK oil refining industry in continuing to provide the secure fuel supplies that we shall need in the future, as well as meeting the tough targets for greenhouse gas reduction under EU and UK laws.”
Petrol stations to install fume capture systems The harmful petrol vapour which escapes during the refuelling of cars at service stations will have to be captured according to a deal reached with the Council, which has been confirmed by the European Parliament. Petrol vapour contains benzene, which is known to cause cancer, and contributes to the formation of groundlevel ozone ('smog'), one of the air pollutants most damaging to human health and the environment. The European Parliament confirmed a first-reading agreement reached in informal negotiations with Council which demands that stage II petrol vapour recovery technologies will become compulsory at new or renovated service stations with large throughput as of 1 January 2012. Almost all service stations (small ones will be exempted) will be obliged to install these new technologies by 2018, 2 years earlier than proposed by the Commission. An exception exists also for service stations used exclusively in association with the construction and delivery of new motor vehicles. The Member States will draw drivers’ attention to the recovery systems by appropriate labelling of petrol pumps. They also have to lay down rules on effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties. According to Commission
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