Move is reportedly based on earlier understandings between Egypt, Hamas and Mohammed Dahlan By Nour Abu Aisha The Egyptian authorities on Wednesday allowed several trucks laden with industrial fuel into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip to allow the enclave’s only functioning power plant to resume operations following a two-month hiatus. The move is reportedly based on […]
Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday ordered an inspection of all petrol pumps in Uttar Pradesh and random checks elsewhere to detect short-selling of petrol and diesel by tampering with the system in dispensing units. The move comes after the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) conducted raids on 11 petrol […]
London- Along the lettuce and onion fields in Puebla State in central Mexico, a different kind of thieves who steel fuel dominate the area. Locally, they are known as huachicoleros. In line with these activities, a local popular culture merged with the narcocorrido music emerged to tell about the achievements of drugs cartels. According to […]
Kwinana police have caught another two alleged petrol thieves as part of an ongoing operation with local petrol stations to identify and charge repeat offenders. Senior Sergeant Gary Benzies said it was a huge problem all over the country and millions of dollars worth of fuel was stolen every year. Two women from Medina were […]
Kenya Pipeline Company managing director Joe Sang. FILE PHOTO | NMG Lack of a high-tech system has paved the way for thugs to steal fuel from the main Kenya Pipeline Company pipes, it has emerged. KPC general manager in charge of operations and maintenance Peter Mbugua said they were yet to acquire a lead detection […]
A bold gang set up a makeshift refinery in the grounds of Boris Johnson’s ministerial Chevening estate in order to steal hydrocarbon fuel from a network of underground pipes. Petrol, diesel and aviation fuel was also stolen from pipelines across Essex, Hampshire, Northamptonshire, and Cheshire over a 17-month period. When police raided the site a […]
The air in Progreso de Juárez is thick with the pungent odor of gasoline. It is not difficult to find the origin; just next to one of the roads that enters this small town is a large, dark spot on a patch of dirt, several feet wide. Gasoline, Alejandro explains. He is careful not to […]
By David Hunn Thieves are tapping into the pipelines of Mexico’s state-owned oil and gas company, Pemex, with such frequency and taking so much gasoline, the company is losing well more than $1 billion a year, leaving some U.S. companies with second thoughts about entering the market, a Rice University expert said this week. […]
By Nathan Nwakamma The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), on Tuesday allayed fears over the purported circulation of adulterated and illegally refined petroleum products in Bayelsa. Mr Asuquo Antai, Operations Controller of DPR in Bayelsa, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa that members of the public who patronise licensed fuel stations have nothing […]
Police raided a petrol pump belonging to senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and a close associate of Union minister for transport and shipping Nitin Gadkari in Maharashtra’s Nagpur and sealed two vending machines with microchips that rigged the dispensing units to charge more for less fuel. According to the city police, the action was […]