How Dyeing your Fuel prevents Theft

diesel dye

Diesel or Petroleum usually has the same colour all over the country, but by dyeing your own fuel with a distinctive colour you can easily identify whether a particular sample of diesel comes from your own stores. Furthermore, thieves who are successful in stealing your fuel may not try to steal from you again when they realise that no one buys dyed diesel in large quantities. When thieves and employees realise that the diesel is dyed, they are more likely to be dissuaded from attempting to steal your stockpile of fuel again.

About Fuel Theft

Fuel Dyes

About Fuel Theft

Fuel theft has become a global issue. With the rising crude oil index and the high rate of duty on fuel, the increase in fuel theft has become an issue thought-out the European union. While margins are being squeezed outside sources see the transportation industry as an easy target and theft has been on the increase year on year.
This product will allow you to dye all of your petroleum based products and will allow easily traceable fuel. This is a liquid dye that will colour all fuels blue.


In addition employees will no longer be able to use your petroleum based products for their personal gain, with a ratio of 40,000 to 1 you are assured of quality on a product developed solely for Dye Depot.


Fuel theft is increasingly becoming a national & global issue, with many quantities of Fuel being stolen on a daily basis from warehouses, farm lands, local traders & distributors, truckers or even mass individuals. Due to the increasing high rate of duty on fuel on a global scale, Fuel theft has increased dramatically over the past 10 years and particularly throughout the European union. Through a lack of security and awareness, many companies and major distributors are loosing Millions a year due to this increase in diesel and petroleum thefts as the industry places itself as an easy target for thieves to capitalize on this fuel crisis.


Dye Diesel UK are dedicated specialists with a passion for deterring fuel thefts and creating a unique solution to help you identify your exact fuel types with a simple stream of application Dye’s developed specifically to be mixed with Diesel or Petroleum, leaving a unique colour mark in your fuels that neither hinders nor alters the performance of your Fuel in your vehicles and makes it entirely traceable and identifiable in the circumstance that your vehicles become the next victim of fuel theft.
All our Dye’s are quality assured and have been regulated for approval on national and international distribution. If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to get in contact today and we will be more than happy to help.


How Real Is The Danger of Fuel Theft?

The threat that your fuel may be stolen is probably higher than you think. The rising cost of fuel in the UK has tempted many individuals to steal fuel for their own profit. According to the Metropolitan Police, there have been 2,044 reported thefts since 2009. What’s more alarming about these figures is that they are just for the London area alone. Many more theft incidents have been reported in various parts of England and the rest of the UK. Once you factor in the fact that many fuel thefts have not been reported at all, you can begin to have a more accurate idea of just how real the threat of fuel theft is.

The Metropolitan Police also revealed that the instances of prosecutions for these offenses have been “miniscule” in comparison. Since 2009, there have only been 59 prosecutions, and those were mostly because the thieves were caught red-handed.