escasez de diésel

Bolivia: YPFB reduce asignación de diesel para Cochabamba y se agrava la escasez

In recent days the pumps in the city have begun to form queues of heavy and light vehicles, some for petrol and diesel by others. In the case of diesel, YPFB has reduced the allocation of Cochabamba for October at 700 thousand liters.

Bolivia: YPFB no normaliza la demanda y Super pide no llenar tanques a full

Santa Cruz spent a weekend without diesel and gasoline to the unfulfilled promise of Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos. The pumps were empty and their owners are concerned that they are about to go into bankruptcy.

Canada (Alberta): Fuel woes continue to plague truckers in Alberta

For more than a week now, truckers like Dan Dickey of Chilliwack, British Columbia, have been scrambling around to find fuel.

That’s because supplies to some of the “cardlocks,” aka unmanned fuel stations, in the province of Alberta, Canada, are being rationed and have run out of diesel because of scheduled maintenance and unexpected production problems at Western Canadian refineries.

India: Discoms rapped over loadshedding

Many parts of the city continue to face outages lasting three to four hours due to problems with the Northern Grid. According to officials from Northern Load Dispatch Centre, there is an approximate 3000 MW shortfall in the northern region with hydro power going in short supply. Due to this, northern states are heavily dependent on the Grid and overdrawing to meet peak demand. By mid-afternoon, Delhi also had to overdraw upto 250 MW.

Pakistan: Countrywide load shedding affects daily life

The ongoing power crisis in the country has intensified with 16 hours of power outages, badly affecting daily life in various cities.

Pakistan: Industry facing horrid gas load - shedding FP Report

At the peak of energy crisis, shutting down the Qadirpur field for emergency maintenance has left the industrial sector in the lurch, as it forced Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) to curtail gas supply to cement, textile, and many other industries from October 11. In the first phase, the SNGPL has picked up cement and textile sectors to face the gas load shedding.

Pakistan: Consumers angered by enhanced load shedding

Residents of Rawalpindi and Islamabad are experiencing eight to ten hours of load shedding daily, affecting business and domestic life.

People now no more accept the government’s claim of ending load shedding by the end of next year because it could not give any relief to them and industry. They said frequent power outages had made life miserable and created serious problems for industrialists, traders, shopkeepers, students and patients. Traffic signals don’t work when power is out and it results into long queues of vehicles on main roads directed by wardens manually.

Bolivia: Falta diésel y gasolina en cuatro departamentos

Despite the fact that roads are free of protest blockages, in Santa Cruz, Tarija and Beni there is an upsurge in shortages of diesel, petrol and gas for domestic use.

Yesterday there were long lines of high-tonnage trucks, taxis, mototaxis, buses, tractors and ordinary citizens loaded with drums on and different suppliers waiting to get some fuel.

Dominican Republic: Dominicans complain of blackouts , despite higher energy output

Electricity generation increased 123 megawatts in the last few hours but resident in different sectors of Santo Domingo, Santiago, Barahona and other cities complain of rolling blackouts as long as six hours.

Some residents also say power service is suspensed up to three times per day, each longer than three hours, though users pay the monthly electric bill. They affirm that from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. the blackouts are most frequent, without an explanation from the distribuitor company Ede-Este.

India: Unscheduled power cuts in Karnataka

The State Government has decided to impose unscheduled power load-shedding ranging from four to five hours a day in Bangalore and other parts of the State.

Addressing journalists, Energy Minister K.S. Eshwarappa on Tuesday said the demand for power has increased to 116 million units a day owing to deficit rainfall in September. Unscheduled power cuts would be resorted owing to deficit in hydel power generation and erratic monsoon.

Pakistan: KESC - a tale of constant failure

Despite the increase in demand from the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) to 2,630MW electricity per day in the last eight years, the administration of the power company has not taken any measures to enhance its power generation capacity to end load shedding.

USA (Georgia): Georgia Requests Oil Released From U.S. Reserve to Ease Gasoline Shortage

The Bush administration is ``reviewing'' a request by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to release oil from the strategic reserve to help ease gasoline supply problems in the Southeast.

Perdue, a Republican, issued a press release two days ago saying he had requested President Bush direct the Energy Department to release ``a significant amount of crude'' from the reserve.

USA (Southeast): Frustration in the South as a Gasoline Shortage Drags On

As a gasoline shortage in the South drags through its second week, drivers have gone from being mildly annoyed to deeply frustrated, with lines hours long at service stations in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Southern drivers could continue to face long lines, high prices and widespread station closings until mid-October, the AAA automobile club said Monday, although the problem may begin to improve this week.