fuel crisis

India: ‘Bengal may face powercuts

The city and the state may reel under powercuts during the pujas if there is shortage of coal supply.
The shortage of supply of coal has forced West Bengal Power Development Corporation Ltd (WBPDCL) to shut down a 200 MW unit in Kolaghat and two units 50 MW each in Bandel today.

Nepal: Gas shortage even in Dashain: LPG bottlers

Nearly a month has gone by since the supplies minister made the public commitment to ease the supply of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) within fifteen days. But consumers are still reeling under short supply and rampant black marketing.

Pakistan: Loadshedding continues

Prolonged power outages continue across the City during the holy month of Ramazan on rotational basis of 4 hours maximum during the day time and 2 hours during night.
The chief minister chaired a meeting the other day at the CM’s House regarding loadshedding in Karachi and the problems being created by interruption in the power supply. He observed that the City was facing a general shortage of electricity owing to the energy crisis prevailing across the country.

Pakistan: Another day of multiple spells of power failures , load-shedding

Another day passed on Tuesday with multiple spells of power failures and load-shedding as the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) could not meet the power electric supply demands of the city.

Dwellers of different residential areas have complained about recurring incidents of power outages and load-shedding during Iftar and Sehri timings despite commitment of the privatised management of the Karachi Electric Supply Company to spare citizens of load-shedding during the two important daily intervals of the month of Ramazan.

USA (Georgia): South Georgia's gas shortage likely to continue

The Department of Energy Wednesday said it should take a little while longer to fix the gas shortage in Albany and south Georgia created by Hurricane Ike and Gustav.

Gasoline inventories have declined to their lowest levels because refineries in Texas and Louisiana simply don't have the amount of product needed to send down the Colonial Pipeline that supplies south Georgia with gasoline.

USA (Tennessee): Midstate Gas Shortage Continues

For days, the Nashville area has faced the worst gasoline shortage in the Southeast.

Now, 11 days after Hurricane Ike made landfall in Texas, the pipeline that supplies gas to much of Middle Tennessee is up and running.

But many gas stations remain empty.

USA (North Carolina): Schools, police, AAA feel impact of gas shortage

More Henderson County students are taking the bus to school this year as the area’s gas shortage worsens.

Although they don’t have an exact count, county school officials estimate an additional 1,500 to 2,000 students are boarding the buses.

“That’s spread over about 100 buses, so it doesn’t appear to be an insurmountable number, but it has caused us to make a few second runs,” said Superintendent Stephen Page.

USA (North Carolina): Lines swell, fuel hunt grows

The gas shortage in the mountains showed no signs of letting up Tuesday, leaving consumers waiting hours to refuel and gas suppliers looking farther afield to find fuel.

Gov. Mike Easley also Tuesday appealed to oil and pipeline companies for more fuel for Western North Carolina, Easley press secretary Renee Hoffman said.

USA (North Carolina): Local gas shortage just a symptom of a long-term problem

Fall has arrived, and with it this year comes something different than the usual smells of falling leaves and mature pumpkins.

Yes, that’s a whiff of panic in the air.

The news cycle is being dominated by panic in the financial markets, where the elusive concept of accountability is hanging over the heads of people who made a lot of bad decisions, people now hoping taxpayers will be persuaded to get them out of this jam. They’re pushing the panic button to the point of wearing it out.

USA (North Carolina): Gas shortage may stick around a little longer

The gasoline shortage appears to be easing, albeit slowly, according to those in the oil and automotive industry.

"We hope that this will begin now, that we are slowly getting back to normal," said AAA Carolinas spokeswoman Carol Gifford. "It is taking a little longer than we thought because the refineries in the Houston area are still not up and running. They are at 15 percent capacity."

Zimbabwe: Fuel crisis affecting even the shadowy Mafia-like JOC

The fuel shortage in the country has affected operations of the Joint Operations Command (JOC) that comprise service chiefs.

“JOC has no fuel. This has curtailed their operations heavily. This fuel crisis is serious - if JOC fails to get the fuel, what of the ordinary government vehicles. Where do you think they would get fuel,” said a source.

Argentina: Continúa el desabastecimiento de combustible en todo el país

In a story that seems to have no end, Federation Vending Fuels in the province of Buenos Aires (Fedecoba) reported on Monday that it has not yet been normalized supply gasoline and diesel, and noted that service stations in the province of Buenos Aires are missing both products at 30 percent on average.

Argentina: Continúa la escasez de combustible

"It seems that this situation came to stay," said the owner of the vending Fuels Federation of the Province of Buenos Aires, Luis Malchiodi. He spoke about the supply problems naphthas and diesel for months that have affected the whole territory of Buenos Aires.

China: Shandong Sees Worst Power Shortage, Just in Time for the Olympics

Shandong Province, one of the economic power centers on China’s coast, is so short of electrical power that the government has issued an urgent order to guarantee its nearly 100 million population enough of the stuff to catch the imminent Beijing Olympic Games on TV, though that may be a physical mission possible.

On July 19, a major power shortage accounted for nearly 1/3 of total demand in Shandong. Weifang, a city in Shandong, reported that it was suffering the most serious power crunch in the past 15 years. In many areas, especially rural areas, power cuts come often.

China: China's Energy -Supply Shortages Continue

Despite massive investment in new capacity and an aggressive energy efficiency program, China is still suffering from shortages of energy supply. These arise from its high rate of economic growth and the system for pricing energy. China's economy continues to grow at more than 10% per year, and given its large size and its energy-intensive nature, this necessarily places an enormous strain on the energy sector.

China: China's Shandong province faces 10.2 mln kw power shortfall

Shandong province faces a power shortfall of maximum 10.2 mln kilowatts, nearly one third of total power demand, mainly due to coal shortages, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Major power plants in Qingdao and Weifang have shut down five generators with total capacity of over 1.76 mln kilowatts as of July 28, the report said.

El Salvador: Población resiente escasez de propano

The consumer market of liquefied gas began to feel the effects of the lack of product, and gas companies have announced that they had only supply for two to three days.

India: Curbs on power supply to continue

Good rainfall last week in the catchment areas of major reservoirs has done little to change the crisis situation in the power sector in the State, according to the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB).

The KSEB called a board meeting here on Monday to review the monsoon’s progress and found that there was still no case for withdrawing the existing power supply restrictions in the State.

India: Diesel shortage spawns kerosene crisis

The unofficial rationing of diesel by public sector oil companies is now giving rise to another crisis — shortage and blackmarketing of kerosene. With its official sale price kept artificially low, kerosene has always been a favourite fuel of adulterators and blackmarketers.

Nepal: CA members take up fuel crisis with NOC officials

In the wake of the worsening fuel crunch, a dozen Nepali Congress Constituent Assembly (CA) members held talks with Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) officials about the petroleum crisis Monday.

The state owned NOC, repeated that the fuel crisis is deteriorating due to lack of sufficient money to buy the fuel.

Nigeria: Minister Explains Electricity Rationing

The Minister of State for Energy (Power), Hajiya Fatima Balaraba Ibrahim has attributed the Federal Government recent decision to ration the supply of electricity to shortage of gas supply. She added that the poner supply drastically dropped in the last two months because of the low water level at the hydro plants.

Pakistan: Pakistan to import 1000 MW electricity from Central Asian states

The World Bank has been trying to persuade Pakistan to import some 4,000MW of cheap electricity from Central Asian states, besides working on domestic sources to overcome electricity shortage.

The bank estimates that Pakistan's peak demand now exceeds some 14,000MW and the present installed capacity of 19,500MW has become inadequate on account of wide variations in water availability.

Pakistan: Warsak Road area facing long power cuts

PESHAWAR - With the weather getting hotter and humid, prolonged electricity suspension is putting out residents of Warsak Road and adjoining localities, especially at night.

People complain of experiencing tough days and sleepless nights.

Businessmen report low sales and blame it on frequent unscheduled power outages.

Russia; Russian 7 month oil output falls

Russian oil output edged up by 0.1 percent in July versus June but was still down year-on-year, casting more doubt on the government's target of averting the first annual decline in production since 1998.
Energy Ministry data showed on Monday that oil production stood at 41.361 million tonnes (9.78 million barrels per day) in July compared to 39.999 million tonnes (9.77 million bpd) in June.