Ekona Posted September 5, 2014 Posted September 5, 2014 The closest refinery will supply them. Doesn't matter who owns it. Quote
StevoD Posted September 5, 2014 Posted September 5, 2014 The closest refinery will supply them. Doesn't matter who owns it. Bollocks each supermarket chain will have a contract with one oil company Milton Keynes Tesco won't get shell and Cambridge tesco get bp Quote
JetSet Posted September 5, 2014 Posted September 5, 2014 (edited) The closest refinery will supply them. Doesn't matter who owns it. Yes, that is certainly the case. Tankers will fill up at either one of the 5 major refineries or at one of the 3 terminals served by a network of underground pipes such as the one at Buncefield that blew up in 2005 and caused the largest fire in The U.K since WW2. All the fuel that is supplied to every garage forecourt in North Wales, Cheshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester comes from Stanlow, this is normal practice in the petroleum industry. At these terminals there will be tanks of additive, each one dedicated to the company marketing and selling the petrol (such as BP, Texaco,etc) It makes little sense for Esso Fawley to supply for example Esso stations in Glasgow. There was a period when some Supermarket chains would buy fuel from the spot market in Rotterdam but I don't think they do this now. Pete Edited September 5, 2014 by JetSet Quote
Martinjj Posted September 5, 2014 Posted September 5, 2014 That's how I understand it, all fuel in storage is the same, once it's in the tanker then the additives are put in. All supermarkets take the same fuel it's just once in the tanker different additives are mixed, incidentally at one time Morrisons fuel had so many additives it couldn't use the British standards kite mark, dunno if this was true or just another urban myth Quote
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