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If you are aware, complain: MoEA Minister…

November 28, 2017 News Leave a comment 2,204 Views Economic Affairs Minister Lekey Dorji on November 24 urged that concerned person should come forward and file complaint with office concerned if he or she can prove cases of adulteration at the fuel station. Adulteration, the minister said, was a serious and punishable offence. The minister […]

Eurocontrol Reports SICPA Awarded Mozambique Fuel Marking…

TORONTO, Nov. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Eurocontrol Technics Group Inc. (TSX-V:EUO) (OTCQB:EUCTF) (“Eurocontrol” or the “Company”), a Canadian public company specializing in the acquisition, development and commercialization of innovative test and measurement technologies for industry with application systems focused on the energy security, semiconductor and precision agriculture sectors, announces that SICPA SA has been […]

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Police consider fuel smuggling link to lawyer…

The lawyer in question filed a case in which she is contesting an agreement hammered out between various individuals for a €2 million settlement with an Italian fuel company Investigators are looking into a potential link between an arson attack on a lawyers car and fuel smuggling The lawyer, Graziella Attard, was not available yesterday […]

Stopping oil adulteration: British firm seeking long-term…

Currently, Pakistani refineries are producing kerosene oil without adding any dye, which makes it difficult to detect its mixing with high-speed diesel. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: UK-based company Authentix is seeking to win extension in its contract for fuel marking in kerosene oil in an effort to stop its mixing with the expensive high-speed diesel. A technical […]

Fuel marking scheme rolls out in H2…

MANILA, Philippines — The government is set to implement a fuel marking scheme in the second half of next year to plug about P40 billion in tax leakages caused by oil smuggling, according to the Department of Finance (DOF). In an interview, Finance Undersecretary Antonette Tionko said the government is expected to finish procuring by […]

Illegal diesel dump clean-up in Louth cost…

Reporter: Dundalk Democrat 21 Nov 2017 LOUTH County Council has said that it is not the local authority’s responsibility to check for markers in illegal diesel dumps. The clean-up of two diesel fuel dumps in Co Louth in September last cost €12,000, according to Louth County Councillor Mark Dearey. Cllr Dearey put forward a question about […]

Fuelling a solution?

Adopting Bharat Stage VI fuel is not the environmental panacea as it is being marketed The Government has been moving forward to limit vehicular emissions in the recent past. A few months ago, it brought forward the deadline for Indian automakers to shift towards Bharat Stage-VI emission norms by a couple of years to April […]