Tag: #Fuel
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Asian markets mixed as recovery pace fuels rate-hike fear
Hong Kong, Feb 19 (AFP/APP):Asian markets were mixed Friday as fears that the global recovery will fire inflation continued to niggle investor sentiment as they faced up to the fact that interest rates will not be kept at record lows forever. The rollout of vaccines, falling infection rates and the prospect of another mammoth US…
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IPI Emphasises Health and Safety in Use of Flare Gas
IPI has emphasised health and safety in the use of flare gas.
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Ukraine Plans to Stop Sending its Nuclear fuel to Russia
Kiev, Dec 23 (AFP/APP): Ukraine plans to stop sending its spent nuclear fuel to Russia next year after opening a storage depot at the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the state operator of atomic power plants said Wednesday. “If nothing extraordinary happens, next year we will not deliver anything for storage in Russia,” the acting head of…
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Battered by virus and oil slump, biofuels fall out of favour
London, Nov 27 (AFP/APP):Hit by the coronavirus pandemic and a sharp drop in oil prices, biofuel demand has declined for the first time in two decades and may struggle to recover, according to experts. “The collapse of oil prices has had a very negative impact on biofuels,” rendering them uncompetitive, Olivier Lemesle, director of studies…
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Microsoft & Alaska Airlines Team Up for Alternative Jet Fuel
Microsoft & Alaska Airlines have teamed up for alternative jet fuel.
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Four illegal fuel agencies sealed
MUZAFFARGARH , Oct 03 (APP):Civil defence team launched crackdown and sealed four illegal fuel agencies in Rangpur area on Saturday. On identification of Special branch, civil defence team included Abdul Majeed, Amir, Asif and Imran raided at illegal fuel agencies including LPG refilling agency and sealed four at Rangpur. The application sent to Rangpur police…
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Oil company CEOs refuse to join probe into hoarding case
KARACHI: The CEO’s of oil companies have reportedly refused to join the investigation into the hoarding case. According to reports, the nominated CEO’s of the petroleum companies have refused to join the investigation in connection with the probe into the petrol crisis in Karachi. A case of shortage of petrol, hoarding and black marketing was…
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Venezuela’s fuel shortages persist despite Iran deliveries
Caracas, July 14 (AFP/APP): Long queues at gas stations around the country underscore Venezuela’s continuing fuel shortages, despite Iran stepping in to help its Latin American ally with a major fuel shipment last month. “Iranian petrol is an illusion that has lasted a month,” driver Nestor Hernandez told AFP in Maracaibo, the country’s second-largest city. He…
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Calm restored in Iran after days of protests
TEHRAN, Nov 20 (XINHUA/APP):Calm has been restored in Iran after days of protests following the government’s decision to ration subsidized gasoline and increase its prices, semi-official FARS News Agency reported Wednesday. Reports from different provinces said that calm and tranquility has been restored after four days of protests, some of which turned to be violence,…
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Ecuador protesters to end deadly unrest
Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno has reached an agreement to end two weeks violent protest