Fuels
(asked on 26th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on each type of fuel in 2013-14; and who the suppliers were.
The majority of Ground, Aviation and Marine fuel consumed by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is purchased under the bulk fuel contracts managed by the Defence Fuel Services Team, part of Defence Equipment and Support. The expenditure against these contracts for financial year 2013-14, in £ million, is shown in the following tables.
Ground Fuels
| Supplier | Diesel | Unleaded | Grand Total |
| Certas Energy | 12.30 | 0.12 | 12.42 |
| GB Oils | 9.67 | 0.04 | 9.71 |
| Hall Fuels | 9.44 | 0.56 | 10.00 |
| Harvest | 11.98 | 0.12 | 12.10 |
| Henty | 2.38 | 0.03 | 2.41 |
| LCC | 0.77 | 0.13 | 0.90 |
| Scottish Fuels | 1.08 | 0.09 | 1.17 |
| WFSCORP | 0.96 | - | 0.96 |
| Grand Total | 48.58 | 49.67 |
Notes:
(1) During the financial year Certas Energy took over GB Oils and Scottish Fuels and WFSCORP took over Henty. These companies continue to trade under their original names.
(2) Other parts of the MOD purchase ground fuels but this information is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Aviation and Marine
| Supplier | Aviation | F44 (Marine Aviation) | F76 (Marine) | Grand Total |
| BP Oil International | 46.21 | - | 26.50 | 72.71 |
| CEPSA | 20.51 | - | 26.01 | 46.52 |
| Chevron | - | 16.09 | - | 16.09 |
| HETCO | 33.30 | - | - | 33.30 |
| MOH | 11.28 | 6.12 | 19.49 | 36.89 |
| Q8 | 14.91 | - | - | 14.91 |
| Shell | 105.21 | - | 53.58 | 158.79 |
| World Fuels | 14.31 | - | - | 14.31 |
| Grand Total | 245.73 | 22.21 | 125.58 | 393.52 |
Outside of these contracts the Front Line Commands purchased £137.45 million of aviation fuel in financial year 2013-14. These purchases occur when an aircraft refuels at a non-MOD site.