News & Commentary

New Self Bunded Tank Distributor in Perth, Western Australia Updated Press Release: Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Mar 02, 2018, 14:04 ET The founders of FES Tanks, Australia’s market leader in self-bunded tanks, are pleased to expand their reach into Perth and across Western Australia through a new distribution agreement with Genset Hire and Sales Australia (GHASA). […]

The Standards and Best Practice Guidelines for Vapour Recovery at Petrol Service Stations (2016) has been updated. The new laws came into force on January 1, 2017. The new guidelines were developed after a period of industry consultation late last year. Fuel retailers now have a choice of VR equipment and can make equipment maintenance […]

Fuels retailer Caltex Australia has predicted its core profit will weaken this year slightly more than the market was anticipating, brought down by a failure in earnings from the broken down refining business. While Caltex said its sole outstanding refinery in Brisbane achieved better, the margin it made on adapting crude oil into petrol and […]

The NSW Government has released its Biofuels Exemptions Guidelines, outlining conditions under which fuel retailers can seek to be excluded from the biofuels law starting 1 January 2017. Article includes a link to the Guidelines, which include conditions such as an inability to secure supply, high costs required for compliance and/or transport, excessive lead times […]