Royal Dutch Shell said today the sale of its Ellesmere Port refinery to Indian conglomerate Essar Energy was still under review after reporting a steep drop in fourth quarter and full year earnings. Shell announced plans to offload 15% of its refinery capacity in Europe and the Americas, including the

BP has reported a surge in profits for the fourth quarter of 2009. The oil giant said profits surged by 70% to $4.4 billion (£2.8 billion) in the last three months of the year, compared with a loss of $3.3 billion (£2 billion) for the same period in 2008. Meanwhile, for the full year, profits were down 45% at $14 billion (£8.7 billion). According to BP,

RMI Petrol has called on retailers to get their MPs to support its business rates challenge. Brian Madderson, RMI Petrol chairman, has been leading the charge against the methodology used by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) in its recent revaluations after retailers

Car owners appear to have a more relaxed attitude to car use and fuel purchasing than they did in July 2008, when fuel prices were at their peak, according to a consumer survey by research company Key Note. Comparing the results of its latest survey which

Major oil companies have failed to demonstrate the sustainability of their biofuels, according to the Renewable Fuels Agency, in its latest report on the impacts of the biofuel supplied in the first year of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO). The report

Harvest Energy, which opened its ninth branded site just before Christmas and will be opening its 10th shortly, will be hard to miss at this year's International Forecourt & Fuel Equipment Exhibition (IFFE). That's because the oil company

Simply Coffee has signed a three-year contract with Murco to provide premium coffee to 130 of its refitted sites. This

Co-op staff have been thanked for their sterling efforts in coping with the recent bad weather by the company's