Fuels Industry UK

2024 is coming to an end and we have had a lot of fantastic wins this year! Some of the highlights include: 🌟 our conference in May on net zero and the workforce skills crisis, 🌟 co-authoring a letter with 15 other trade associations with our asks to improve the workforce skills crisis, 🌟 being invited to join the Jet Zero Taskforce alongside other senior figures across the transport sector, 🌟 submitting responses to over 30 consultations advocating for our members and, 🌟 delivering events at the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences, 🌟 plus many, many more. We are looking forward to continuing our work in the new year and know that 2025 will bring plenty more wins. From the Fuels Industry UK team, best wishes for a joyous Christmas break and we are looking forward to continuing our work in the new year and know that 2025 will bring plenty more wins.

LinkedIn's 2024 Green Skills Report says that demand for workers with green skills in the UK grew by 46% last year. Globally, there aren't enough workers with the right skills (and most 'green' skills are really those same skills we have today, which are already in shortage) and the report says the pool of talent must – at a minimum – double by 2050 to keep apace with projected demand. We know this is an ongoing issue in our sector, and we hope to see an increase in policy changes to encourage more people to join the sector, as well as more visibility of the non-academic career pathways such as apprenticeships and other vocational training which are so vital to our work and all manufacturing. #greenskills 

Great to see our member Exolum talking about their terminals and plans for the green transition. They are working on a Tees Valley Hydrogen Vehicle Ecosystem at their Riverside terminal site, to develop one of the UK's leading hydrogen refuelling stations for HGVs & coaches. #greentransition

Yesterday we said farewell to Andy Roberts after 17 years of service to Fuels Industry UK (plus many more to the wider fuels sector).    Andy is an expert in his field, and we are very grateful to have had him with our organisation for such a long time. He has contributed so much to the industry over the years, and his work will live on.   Some words that the team have used to describe Andy include - sage, considered, legendary, precise, academic, articulate, and irreplaceable.    Andy - you will be sorely missed, and we wish you all the best for your well-deserved retirement!

Our member Shell has recently launched a new energy transition skills hubs helping new career starters into jobs with a focus on the energy transition - check it out below.

Simon Wood, our Environment, Health and Safety Specialist at Fuels Industry UK is speaking at Hazardex Media Group #HazardexLive2025 in February next year.

Elizabeth de Jong shares her thoughts on Jet Zero Taskforce Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom #JetZeroTaskforce

Interesting read from Zemo Partnership last week, as they published their Delivery Roadmap for Net Zero Transport. A few of the welcome conclusions that jumped out at me: ✅ Higher UK biofuel blends are needed. With stronger targets, companies like Exolum can better plan investment in logistics infrastructure to help deliver biofuels as efficiently as possible. ✅ Encourage the development & use of drop-in biofuels. Uptake of HVO in particular is proving increasingly popular, with Exolum recently expanding our capacity on Merseyside in response to this. ✅ The Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom should have a clear low carbon fuels strategy. Long-term direction of policy is an increasingly important factor investment decisions by companies like Exolum Thanks to Zemo Partnership & colleagues at Fuels Industry UK who took part in this work on our behalf via the Council for Net Zero Transport. Stephen Land Tim Barrow Edward Gill #WeAreExolum #NetZero #Innovation #Partnerships #biofuels #decarbonisation #greentransition Claire Swadkin Nick Matthews James Baker Peter Davidson Nunzia Florio Tank Storage Association

Read our response to the Industrial Strategy Green Paper consultation. Our key points from the response are: ⏩ It is important that the fuels sector be recognised in the industrial strategy for the benefits it brings to the economy, both as a potential driver of growth in clean energy technologies (CCUS, hydrogen and lower carbon fuels) and given that it can deliver against all of the Green Paper’s objectives of delivering net zero, regional growth, and economic security and resilience. Our response also made clear that it is also well above the average in terms of UK productivity -a key driver of growth. ⏩ The sector is a foundational sector that enables potential growth by other sectors. There is a reliance on fuels and other products we manufacture and deliver such as plastics, solvents, lubricants and more without which the UK will be less able to secure growth.   ⏩ The industrial strategy must seek to address the current barriers to investment in the UK which include: high carbon and energy costs; old models of regulation that slow down the net zero transition; not considering full lifecycle emissions, particularly in the transport sector; current shortages in workforce skills to deliver net zero. See link here for our full response: https://shorturl.at/5SVaY

Great to join Exolum's very own Yufan Cai at this Spanish Chamber of Commerce in the United Kingdom event this week, as she took some questions from the Financial Times' Peter Foster, and to hear Douglas Alexander offer his view on the importance Anglo-Spanish investment. As Yufan Cai set out, there are 3 areas of focus for Exolum when it comes to our work in NW Europe: 1️⃣ Making ongoing investments in our existing pipeline & storage network, which delivers fuel for 4/10 flights leaving the UK & holds an exciting future for the role of #SustainableAviationFuel. 2️⃣ Acquiring additional capabilities to move molecules, such as through our innovative #hydrogen projects at Tees Valley & Immingham. 3️⃣ Exploring new options for logistics, through partnerships like that recently announced in Spain with Tecnicas Reunidas for carbon capture & storage. If you'd like to learn more, get in touch!📱 📧 Thanks to Igor Urra, Rebecca Wall & the rest of the SCC team for putting on a great event. #WeAreExolum #NetZero #Innovation #Partnerships #SAF #Sustainability #Aviation #hydrogen #ccus Stephen Land Ignacio Casajus Gorka Penalva Alex Ellis Ignacio Hernández Hurtado Oran Willson James Baker Fuels Industry UK Peter Davidson Nunzia Florio Tank Storage Association Clare Jackson Brett Ryan Hydrogen UK