62 areas of the UK, each with the supplier we would start with and two alternatives worth a call. Drawn from the 83 suppliers we have checked against their own websites and Companies House.
Ranked on four things, in this order: how close the supplier's nearest depot is to you, whether they focus on households rather than commercial contracts, the consumer mechanics they actually publish (buying groups, budget plans, minimum order size, small tankers for tight access, cold weather priority), and accreditation such as UKIFDA membership.
Price is not a ranking factor, and here is why
There is no public, independent, per-supplier price comparison for England, Scotland or Wales. Every "cheapest" claim we found while researching this was the supplier's own marketing. Ranking on price would mean ranking on who advertises hardest. Get quotes from two or three of the names below and compare them yourself on the day you order.
Every operational claim in these picks was read on the supplier's own website and each area page links to the pages we read it on. We show no star ratings: the review data we could obtain came from caches and mirrors we could not re-check. No supplier can pay to appear in these picks or to be described more warmly in them. The one paid position on this site is the featured card at the top of the results and of each location page, held under an affiliate partnership, labelled as a paid placement and kept entirely separate from these picks.
Highlands & Islands
Central Belt
Tayside & Fife
Ayrshire & South West
Borders & Dumfries
Antrim & Belfast
Fermanagh
Londonderry
North West England
North East England
Yorkshire & Humber
East Midlands
West Midlands
East of England
South East England
Wales
Anglesey & Gwynedd
Start with G D Jones & Son
Conwy & Denbighshire
Start with G D Jones & Son
Powys & mid Wales
Start with Oil 4 Wales
Ceredigion
Start with Oil 4 Wales
Pembrokeshire
Start with K P Thomas & Son
Carmarthenshire
Start with Oil 4 Wales
Monmouthshire & South East Wales
Start with Estuary Oils
Glamorgan
Start with Watson Fuels