Thank you to everyone who took the time to visit the Rix Petroleum stand at what was a very hot Royal Norfolk show.

OK, we know what it’s like. You’re sat there, in the garden you work so hard to maintain, sipping cool drinks in the warm summer sun (that’s only just arrived), so the last thing you want to think about is your heating oil tank and getting ready for next winter. But at the risk of dragging you down, there are one or two tips we thought we ought to share so when the cold weather eventually returns, you’ll be snug as a bug in a rug!

With oil prices remaining low since late 2014, major changes have been taking place for oil refiners.

We are delighted to have won the 'Transport and Logistics' category in the awards run by Family Business United – an organisation that supports family-owned firms in the UK.

See Rix Petroleum Midlands at the Kenilworth show this weekend (Saturday 6th June) as we return once again as the main sponsor.

We were delighted to deliver something a little extra to our Milwich heating oil syndicate this month in the form of a donation to the village’s community groups.

Big oil companies and their shareholders tend to panic when oil prices plummet and the result is often a splurge of corporate mergers. Indeed, it was the low oil price at the end of the 1990’s, that led Lord Browne (then head of BP) to first merge with Mobil and then buy the American oil giants Amoco and ARCO in quick succession. At about the same time, Exxon bought out the remnants of Mobil, Chevron merged with Texaco and Total gobbled up Elf and PetroFina.