Our Fuels

Approved Oil provides top-quality fuels for our residential and commercial customers.

We want to be your one-stop
source for:

#2 home heating oil
#4 and #6 oil
natural gas
kerosene
on- and off-road diesel

Heating Oil

Value, safety and dependability are great reasons to choose Oilheat for your home comfort. New York enjoys favorable pricing and dependable supply due to our excellent port facilities, and the fuel is ideal for safe storage. Approved Oil delivers Oilheat at highly competitive prices throughout the five boroughs, in Westchester County and on Long Island.

With our automatic delivery service, you can relax and enjoy your comfortable home, knowing that Approved has your fuel needs covered. Our experienced drivers, many of whom are longtime employees, respect your property and keep everything neat when they make a delivery. To open an Oilheat account, contact us.

If you are an Automatic Delivery customer and you think you might need more oil before your next delivery, you can request a delivery.

Oilheat Benefits

Oilheat is competitively priced. In 12 of the 17 years from 1992 to 2008, the average annual price of Oilheat in New York State was lower than the annual average price of utility gas, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Oilheat is environmentally friendly. Residential Oilheat equipment creates such a negligible amount of emissions that heating oil is not even regulated by the Federal Clean Air Act. Oil storage tanks do not pose a threat to the environment because Oilheat is non-toxic, non-carcinogenic and biodegradable. Oilheat is a liquid that transports and stores safely.
Oilheat is efficient. Efficiency ratings of new Oilheat appliances range from 83% to 95%. Heating efficiency is the amount of usable heat extracted from the potential energy of the fuel. Oilheat is an efficiency leader, and it burns hotter than competing fuels, so it heats domestic hot water more quickly.
Oilheat is safe. It takes an advanced, high-tech burner to ignite the oil. If you drop a match into heating oil, it will go out as if dropped into water. Also, the possibility of carbon monoxide entering the home from an oil burner is very low.
Oilheat is convenient: With Oilheat, you have control over your fuel. Heating oil is stored safely in a corrosion-resistant tank on your property, so you don't have to worry about disruptions in your fuel supply.
Oilheat is dependable: There are over 50 oil-producing countries, and the U.S. is not dependent on any one country or region for its supply. In addition, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the United States has a capacity of 727 million barrels - the world's largest emergency oil stockpile - and the Northeast Heating Oil Reserve stores 2 million barrels.

Oilheat Myths

There are some myths about Oilheat that need to be explained.

Myth No.1: The Oilheat supply will run out.

Truth: Global petroleum reserves are plentiful, and with over 50 oil-producing countries, the U.S. is not dependent on any one source for our supply. In the event of a shortage, the United States is well prepared with 727 million barrels in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and 2 million barrels in the Northeast Heating Oil Reserve. In addition to plentiful supplies of petroleum, there is potentially an infinitely renewable supply of liquid biofuel that blends readily with heating oil to fuel an Oilheat system.

Myth No. 2. Oilheat is bad for the environment.
Truth: Oilheat produces near-zero levels of emissions today and is not regulated by the Federal Clean Air Act. Equipment manufacturers are introducing new oil burners that further reduce emissions by "reburning" the flue gases created inside a boiler or furnace. The Oilheat industry will soon adopt new reduced-sulfur blends that can be mixed with biofuel to create what the Energy Research Center has called, "the preferred fuel for lowering greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S."

Myth No. 3: Oilheat is expensive.
Truth: Oilheat is consistently priced competitively with other home heating fuels, including utility gas. In fact, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that in New York, oil has been less expensive than utility gas, on a BTU-for-BTU basis, nearly every year since 1992. Energy experts agree that the prices of oil and utility gas track each other closely, so it is unlikely that either fuel will ever maintain a significant price advantage over the other.

Myth No. 4: Oilheat is old-fashioned.

Truth: Oilheat and the equipment that it fuels are both on the cutting edge of heating technology. The fuel itself is being transformed through sulfur reduction, blending with biofuel, and the use of advanced additives. Oilheat boilers and furnaces improve every year with the incorporation of new technologies like secondary heat exchange, modulating burners and electronic controls. System efficiency has improved so much in recent years that the average Oilheated home cut oil consumption by 33.6% between 1978 and 2005.

Myth No. 5: Oilheat can explode.
Truth: If you drop a match into heating oil, it will go out as if dropped into water. Oilheat cannot even ignite unless it is heated to 140 degrees - the point at which it begins to vaporize. An Oilheat system preheats the oil and uses an atomizing nozzle to create a mist that is ignited inside a boiler or furnace.

Myth No. 6: Oilheat is dirty.
Truth: A properly adjusted and maintained Oilheat system burns cleanly, and any soot that is created occurs only inside the system's combustion chamber and flue. The fuel itself has a noticeable odor, but the liquid fuel should never be present outside the tank and the burner, and you should never smell it. If you can smell the fuel, ask us to check for a drip from your tank or burner.

Myth No. 7: Oilheat tanks are a nuisance.
Truth: Oilheat tanks represent two of the fuel's great strengths: independent storage and safety. When you have a supply of Oilheat in your tank, you are more impervious to disaster than your neighbors who use utility gas. Utility gas depends on uninterrupted service to keep your home warm, and any calamity that interferes with the gas pipeline can cause an outage and put the home at risk.