LPG

January 17 2010

India: City reels under LPG shortage

Owing to the relocation of a supply depot from Nabha to Jalandhar, the city is reeling under acute shortage of LPG. According to reliable sources, “Earlier, a majority of LPG agencies used to get supply from the bottling plant at Bhawanigarh Road in Nabha. But since the the supply has been shifted from Nabha to Jalandhar, it has affected the regular supply of LPG with backlog spreading from 10 to 15 days.”

Nepal: 9-hr a day power cut

Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has imposed a whopping nine hours a day load-shedding from Sunday.

Earlier, there was eight hours a day load-shedding for five days and seven hours a day for two days in a week.

The power cut hours have been increased as hydropower projects are generating less electricity due to receding water levels in the rivers. All the hydropower projects in the country -- except Kulekhani -- are built on run-of-river model.

Pakistan: Pakistanis freeze in cold

Sagheerullah Khan huddles before a small fire outside his shop in northwest Pakistan, struggling to stay warm and keep his business alive despite five days without electricity.

Other shopkeepers join him and gather around the flames in the poor Badhber neighbourhood on the outskirts of northwest capital Peshawar, lamenting crushing power outages and gas shortages that have plunged them back in time.

"Long power cuts and a lack of natural gas have made life miserable for us during the extremely cold season," Khan tells AFP as he sets the flame of his ageing kerosene lamp to try and light up the pitch-black night.

Venezuela: Venezuela oil output unhurt by power cuts - govt

Businesses and homes are being hit by rolling blackouts aimed at sharply reducing power consumption. The hydroelectricity-dependent country is suffering a severe drought caused by the EL Nino weather anomaly.

"Production has not been affected at all, neither has refining or upgrading," Ramirez said late on Friday.

Some of Venezuela's oil is a tar-like crude that has to upgraded to a lighter liquid before it can be exported.

February 16 2009

Global: Total says oil output near peak

The world will never be able to produce more than 89m barrels a day of oil, the head of Europe’s third largest energy group has warned, citing high costs in areas such as Canada and political restrictions in countries like Iran and Iraq.

Christophe de Margerie, chief executive of Total, the French oil and gas company, said he had revised his forecast for 2015 oil production downward by at least 4m barrels a day because of the current economic crisis and the collapse in oil prices.

Bangladesh: No concrete plan to tackle power, gas crises

There is no concrete action plan in sight to tackle the looming power and gas crises even though the country has started seeing load-shedding well before the summer.

Power and Energy Ministry officials said the country is set to face a severe energy crisis as the policymakers of the new government are now trying to get familiar with the activities of the Power and Energy Ministry and its subordinate bodies rather than going into actions.

The summer usually starts in mid-March and continues until mid-October.

Kenya: Consumers brace for new round of gas shortage

A shortage of cooking gas is looming following technical failures at the country’s sole refinery, sparking off fears of a fresh adjustment of prices.

Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited (KPRL), which produces 50 per cent of the country’s cooking gas, has not been producing the commodity since last week.

Nigeria: Politics, Gas Shortage Threaten 6000mw Target

The much-publicised 6,000 megawatts target of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's administration may not be realised by December this year owing to two factors: in-fighting in the power sector and the shortage of gas to power the generating plants.

These developments, experts fear, may jeopardise about $10 billion private investments in the sector and impact negatively on the seven-point agenda of the administration.
Political intrigues are believed to be responsible for the in-fighting in the sector, leading to the recent probe of the Nigerian Electricity Regula-tory Commission (NERC) over an allegation of N1.5 billion fraud.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had, on February 4, arrested and detained the Chairman of NERC, Dr. Ransome Owan, and six other commissioners on the allegation of perpetrating the fraud.

Pakistan: Bakeries do roaring business after gas loadshedding

RESIDENTS in southern Lahore faced problems after unannounced loadshedding of gas by the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) for over 12 hours on Sunday.

The gas supply to Green Town, Township, Model Town, Link Road, Model Town, Akbar Chowk, Faisal Town, Johar Town, Kot Lakhpath and other adjacent areas was suspended by the SNGPL for maintenance. The gas supply to the said areas was suspended at 11am and it was not restored till the filing of the report.

The SNGPL officials were only telling people that gas supply would be restored at midnight. When The News called the helpline, Saleem, an official, said the gas supply was suspended at 12pm noon and it would be restored at midnight.

Vietnam: Nation needs more power lines

An insufficient number of power lines could lead to an electricity shortage, said Pham Le Thanh, director of Electricity of Viet Nam.

EVN should build multi-storey lines to better serve higher demand.
Thanh said there were now 13,000 transformers, and the current capacity of power plants reached 15,000MW, a figure which would need to be increased by another 2,000 transformers and additional power lines.

EVN's warning meant that current plants have used up all of their transmission capacities on the national grid, and without a new and upgraded cable system, the electricity companies would generate more electricity which would then not be transmitted to the consumers who, as a result, would suffer shortages.

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