Argentina: Combustibles : sigue escalada de precios
Some estimates of private observers noted that the value of naphthas increased by 38.50 percent since the beginning of this year. The prospects are not promising, since the continuing lack of state policies to curb rising costs will continue.
Added to this is the shortage of fuel in the pumps.
Argentina: Desabastecimiento: El 70 % de las estaciones no tienen gasoil
70% of service stations in the city of La Plata are without diesel and this situation is increasing prices.
China: Earthquake, January snow, coal price inflation: China faces energy shortage
A coal shortage has forced the closure of 39 electric plants, reducing production by 6.37 gigawatts. After the serious damage caused by the earthquake in Sichuan, and by the heavy snowfall in January, the country is in danger of a serious energy shortage this summer.
India: Left adamant on n-deal, blames government for uranium shortage
Asserting that their opposition to the Indo-US civil nuclear deal remains unchanged, India’s Left parties Friday alleged that the government was trying to create a “temporary uranium shortage” in order to push the contentious pact. “Our stand that we are not for operationalisation of the 123 agreement (with Washington) remains the same,” Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters after a one-and-a-half-hour-long meeting of the four Left parties here.
India: Scanty coal may hit power sector: panel
Painting a grim picture of coal supply, an inter-ministerial committee has estimated that the country will be faced with an acute shortage in meeting the requirements of power sector during the 11th Plan period. This will have an adverse impact on the power scenario.
Mexico: Pemex Says Its Oil Production Declined 9.1% in First Four Months of Year
Petroleos Mexicanos, the state-owned oil company, said crude output for the first four months of the year fell 9.1 percent from a year earlier.
Nepal: Fuel crisis looms over Nepal as stocks run low
Hundreds of people queued up at petrol pumps with their cars and motorcycles in the Nepali capital on Friday, as a state-run oil company warned they were running out of fuel stocks.
Nepal: Govt to grant 1b loan to NOC
The NOC has been bearing a huge loss as it has been forced to sell and distribute the fuel in price less than the cost price despite skyrocketing prices of cured oil in the international market.
Pakistan: Shortfall breaches 500 MW mark
Karachiites had to suffer hours-long spells of power load-shedding amidst hot and humid weather, as the electricity shortfall increased to 567 megawatts (MW) on Thursday - a record for the current season.
Philippines: PGMA underscores need for new power plants in Panay Island
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo called for a quick resolution of the conflict between the business groups, on one hand, and the Catholic church-environmentalists groups, on the other, over the proposed construction of a 100-megawatt coal-fired power plant in this city.
South Africa: Load shedding looms again
South Africans could yet again be left in the dark, if Eskom loses another power unit.
Eskom warned yesterday that its electricity grid was under renewed pressure with several of its sub-stations out of service. The electricity utility cited the cold weather as the reason for the upsurge in demand.
Venezuela: Problemas en Pdvsa: Se presentará escasez de gas
Sources gas sector argue that soon the price of popular 10 kg cylinder will rise between a range that goes from 9 thousand to 10 thousand bolivars, its price is currently regulated at 3,700 bolivars per cylinder which ensures that there is always a shortage of the product throughout the country.
