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Bangladesh: Power, Water Crises Add to Dhaka Dwellers Woes

Sufferings of the city dwellers, caused by frequent power outages and acute crisis of water, compounded in Ramadan with the authorities failing to keep their pledges in these regard.

People in almost all the areas in the capital experience at least four hours of load shedding in every weekday, from half an hour to one hour at a stretch, amid sweltering heat while it becomes a double-blow for those facing acute scarcity of water in many areas.

Pakistan: Spate of power load-shedding continues unabated

The spate of power load-shedding continued unabated for another day on Friday as the new private management of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) is still struggling to meet the electricity demand of the city.

To meet the electricity demand of a little more than 2,200 Megawatts (MWs) in the last 24 hours, the KESC resorted to load-shedding of around 268 MWs to overcome the shortfall of electricity.

USA (Gulf Coast): Producers Say 89% of U.S. Gulf Oil Output, 75% of Gas Idled After Storms

U.S. energy producers have resumed output for about 11 percent of oil and 25 percent of natural-gas production in the Gulf of Mexico after storms in the region.

Energy companies reported that 6 rigs and 262 production platforms remain evacuated from the storms earlier this month, the Minerals Management Service said today in a statement on its Web site. About 1.16 million barrels of daily oil production remain shut-in, along with 5.57 billion cubic feet of gas.

USA (Tennessee): Gas Shortage Worsens In Mid-State

Across middle Tennessee, many places that sell gas have run out after Hurricane Ike damaged the supply line that comes out of Texas last Friday. Also, because of gas shortages, more people are fueling up than usual, which is worsening the problem.

Venezuela: Largas colas por escasez de gasoil

Drivers of public transport in the municipalities San Cristobal, Cardenas, Cordova, and Torben Lobatera, Tachira state, have been affected by the shortage of diesel for their units.

At service stations where they can take the vehicles are recorded long queues of collectives, while drivers patiently waiting to buy fuel for the day.

Germán Duarte, president of the union carriers of the entity, noted that there would be no reasons for failures in supply. "I have had reports that the inconvenience that arises is that the Government increased fuel price to export to Colombia and, supposedly, the smugglers returned to spend the diesel across the border."

India: Demand-supply gap of oil, gas to widen further

Supply constraints, a sharp rise in demand and record high prices are likely to result in a wider-than-projected gap between demand and availability of oil and gas in the current Five-Year Plan (2007-2012).

"That gap has been widening and will continue to widen," said RS Sharma, chairman and managing director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the country's largest producer of oil and gas.

India: Petrol, diesel shortage hit Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh is facing an acute shortage of petrol and diesel since Saturday, which has led to chaotic scenes at retail outlets Sunday. Long queues of vehicles are seen at petrol pumps in Raipur and several other parts of the state with rumours doing the rounds that the situation would turn worse in the coming days.

India: 'Hydel power is only way to resolve energy crisis'

Uttarakhand chief minister B C Khanduri has reiterated that the state would continue to pursue hydro-power projects, in order to fulfill its energy requirements. The state government had recently suspended two of its hydel power projects — at Bhaironghati as well as Pala-Maneri, after environmentalist G D Agarwal went on a fast to protest against the damming of upper reaches of the Ganga.

However, Khanduri maintains that tapping the state's significant hydro power reserves is the only way to resolve the growing energy crisis in the state. In an exclusive interaction with STOI , he said that hydro-power would remain the mainstay of Uttarakhand's power generation plan.

Pakistan: OMCs warn government of diesel shortage

The Oil and Marketing Companies (OMCs) have warned the government that country would be facing acute diesel shortage because of their inability of future investments and the looming danger of closing down operations after their profit margin is frozen, sources in petroleum ministry told Daily Times Saturday.

The ministry has prepared a summary to freeze the profit margin of OMCs that is applied from July 1 along with the reduction of deemed duty from 10 percent to 5 percent for Oil refineries.

Pakistan: Power cuts continue

Despite the availability of power supply from the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) after a gap of almost 18 days the city has still been facing a shortage of power supply causing recurring spells of hours-long power load-shedding.

Paraguay: Paraguay: Oil Shortage Limits Public Transport

Public transportation service in Paraguay is still limited today by the shortage of gas oil due to logistic problems.

To save fuel and avoid suspending the service, companies of this sector decided to implement an emergency plan that includes functioning of only 20 percent of its buses.

Paraguay: Se redujo se servicio de transporte público en la ciudad

Public service passenger traffic was reduced considerably this Sunday in Asuncion, according to radio reports in the Paraguayan capital. The reduction in service was scheduled by the various transport companies facing shortages of fuel, reported the spokesmen for the Center for Employers of passenger transport in the metropolitan area.

Paraguay: Aseguran que Petropar recibirá gasoil la madrugada de este lunes

Prompted by the severe shortage of diesel fuel that is critical for the country, the president of Petropar, Alejandro Takahasi, outlined today the provision of fuel for the next few days. The official said that this Monday morning "a significant fuel load," which will help alleviate the shortage of supply of this vital fuel, will reach the country.

Uganda: Diesel shortage looming

UGANDA may experience another diesel shortage, the Government and dealers have warned.

Daniel Segal, the Kobil general manager, said the shortage was due to inability of the pipeline to pump oil at a faster rate from Mombasa to Kisumu and Eldoret.