About us
The ECFD (European Conference of Fuel Distributors) is the umbrella association of the federations of heating oil distributors of Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Poland and the United Kingdom. Its mission is to defend the interests of its members at European level safeguarding the independence, resilience and profitability of businesses supplying petroleum products. This mission includes active advocacy work towards the European institutions.
The ECFD therefore represents the interests of 10,000 distributors of petroleum products: domestic heating oil, kerosene, petrol, diesel, gasoil, liquefied petroleum gas (butane, propane, LPG). Heating oil occupies a prominent place with a distribution of several tens of millions of oil to consumers including private households, commercial, agricultural and marine businesses, industry and public sector operations.
Our family-owned SMEs supply from the refineries, terminals and their own storage to their customers’ tanks.
Although demand can spike during crises, the flexibility, local knowledge and resources of ECFD members assure uninterrupted delivery of fuel to their customers, even to those most isolated and needy.
In addition to meeting consumer demand, we at the ECFD are acutely aware of our role in protecting the environment. We promote energy efficient systems, such as thermal insulation and condensing boilers, to our customers as well as complementary renewable energy sources, eg solar, wind, wood and biofuels. We feel this goes some way to help tackling the major social challenges of climate change, reduction of CO2 emissions, security of supply, energy efficiency and the competitiveness of the European industry.
Our distributors also manage and supply fuels used in agricultural machinery, shipping and public sector works as well as road diesel directly to individual road hauliers.
To ensure security of supply, the ECFD advocates for an energy mix within a competitive market and a non discriminatory EU energy policy.