June 3 2008
Argentina: Hay escasez de combustibles de norte a sur del país
The lack of naphthas and diesel is already a common story inside the country, where for a month and a half an average of 20 service stations have realized supply problems.
Argentina: La falta de combustibles complica el trabajo de las patrullas en La Plata
The fuel shortage afflicting service stations for the past several weeks has turned into a serious problem for police in our region. Both complicating the normal development of their preventive tasks to bear the queues to be served or go to different retail outlets for diesel. Formal admission of the problem has not been heard, but highly reliable sources confirmed that situation today.
Argentina: Industria: para no parar la producción, apuestan a combustibles líquidos
The arrival of cold exposed the shortcomings energy. And predictably, local industries-and the province of Buenos Aires-received notifications to restrict consumption of natural gas.The textile factories, a priori, are the most affected by the rationing forced by the national government.
Belize: Rising power costs shock Fortis in Belize
The situation in Belize has reached crisis proportions, said Stan Marshall, president and chief executive officer of Fortis. In a blunt speech to BEL shareholders last month, Mr. Marshall said the company needs to raise rates by 25 per cent immediately or the country will face blackouts
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Chile: Chile toma medidas por combustibles,camioneros protestan
Chile announced on Monday a historic injection of 1,000 million dollars to a fund to subsidize fuel prices before the escalation of global oil, in a measure described as insufficient by protesting truckers who occupied several routes in the country .
The initiative, which must be approved by Congress, would have an effect on inflation, analysts stressed, when the Chilean Central Bank looks at the high values of oil as one of the main threats to price stability.
China: China fuel shortage led by supply, not demand-exec
China's fuel shortage is caused more by declining supply than by increasing demand, an executive with Sinopec SenMei (Fujian) Petroleum Co said on Tuesday.
China: Electricity shortage to hit 8 mln kW in South China
China's need for electricity will keep increasing fast this year with the total need up about 12%. The electricity shortfall in South China will possibly reach 8 million kW in the summer peak season, which will rely largely on coal supply, said officials according to sources.
China: China oil majors to tap other refiners, halt exports to ensure fuel supply
China's two state-run oil majors, China National Petroleum Corp(CNPC) and Sinopec Group, said they will tap capacity at other refiners, halt fuel exports and increase imports to meet demand projected for the summer peak consumption period and the Beijing Olympics.
China: China to face blackouts partly due to quake: official
Large areas of China could face blackouts in the coming months in part due to last month's earthquake, which damaged several hydropower dams and curtailed coal mining, state media reported on Tuesday.
Guangdong province in the south, one of China's manufacturing and export hubs, would face the biggest power shortage, with nearby Guizhou and Yunnan also expected to see demand outstrip supply, Xinhua news agency said.
India: Fuel shortage hits nuclear power projects
A sustained shortage of nuclear fuel has put a question mark on the sustenance of existing and commissioning of new atomic power projects in the country.
The two new nuclear power projects—the fifth unit (220 MW) of Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP) at Rawatbhatta and the fourth reactor of Kaiga Atomic Power Project (220 MW) in Karnataka—that were scheduled for commissioning in June 2008 now face undue delays.
India: M Govinda Rao: Policy inaction and looming crisis
The unfortunate fact is that the subsidy from the petroleum products, including kerosene, does not accrue to the poor by any stretch of imagination but only causes excess demand, adulteration and distortions in resource allocation. One wonders whose interests they are really serving when the Left Parties oppose the price increase. This is the time to rally round the government to find a solution to the looming crisis. The unprecedented international price of oil is a national problem and the parties should collectively deal with it.
India: Scarcity of diesel forced closure of 50 per cent outlets
Due to short supply of diesel by the oil companies, about 50 per cent of total Petrol Pumps went dry of Diesel and consumers had to face inconvenience.
The oil companies are not releasing the diesel as per the requirement and just 40 per cent total order was being supplied, Owner of a Petrol Pump of Bharat Petroleum told on condition on anonymity.
Northern Marianas: Load shedding cancels games at Oleai
Basketball games and badminton practices at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium have been cancelled for the rest of the week because of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.'s load shedding schedule.
Another casualty of power outages at the Oleai Sports Complex is the scheduled monthly meeting of the Northern Marianas Amateur Sports Association.
Pakistan: Electricity breakdowns galore
The city witnessed a worsening power supply situation, with prolonged and night-long power outages since Sunday night, despite the federal government?s power conservation drive in the form of the implementation of Daylight Saving Time (DST).
Citizens had to put up with a 34-degree Centigrade maximum mercury-level and 72 percent humidity. Meanwhile, various residential areas fell victim to power failure for up to 10 hours ? from late Sunday night to Monday evening.
