WANCHAI, HONG KONG, March 2, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Philippines’ new fuel marking and monitoring system is expected to launch in the local downstream oil industry in the second half of 2018. The program is part of a sustained effort to combat rampant fuel smuggling and misdeclaration of petroleum products, estimated to be costing the […]
Leading a top Management team of the corporation on a visit to the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, revealed that detailed study conducted by NNPC indicated strong correlation between the presence of the frontier stations and the activities of fuel smuggling syndicates. According to […]
The Special Task Force claimed to have busted a gang involved in theft of petrol/diesel from oil tankers of Indian Oil Corporation in Meerut. A total of 16 gang members were nabbed and five filled tankers, six empty tankers, two drums filled with petrol, two drums and three containers filled with solvent, three containers of […]
The increasing number of filling stations in Nigeria’s border towns is raising suspicion that they are funnels for fuel smuggling to neighbouring countries. Maikanti Baru, the group managing director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), raised the alarm on Sunday when he received the comptroller general of the Nigerian Customs Service, Hameed Ali, a retired […]
MPs want action to reduce the 40,000 early deaths a year that are linked to Britain’s poor air quality ALL new petrol and diesel cars must be banned from the roads within 12 years, MPs have declared. They called Britain’s pollution problem “a national health emergency” and said the current target of 2040 “lacks sufficient […]
NAIROBI, KENYA: Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has issued tough warning to petroleum transporters in a strategy aimed at curbing fuel adulteration. The industry regulator now says that companies whose road tankers will be found transporting adulterated petroleum products or parked in unlicensed petroleum storage facilities shall have their operating licenses revoked. Further, petroleum road tanker […]
The Head of the Investigations Bureau of the Attorney General’s Office in the Libyan capital, Al-Siddiq Al-Sour, announced the lasts outcomes of the investigations into crimes, murders, and human as well as fuel smuggling in Libya. Human and fuel smuggling Al-Sour explained in a presser on Wednesday that the AG issued 205 arrest warrants for […]
Libya’s naval forces on Thursday seized a Togo-flagged fuel tanker and arrested its Greek crew on the suspicion they planned to smuggle oil out of the country, a spokesman for the forces said. Libya’s western coast is a departure point for the smuggling of heavily subsidised gasoline to neighbours such as Tunisia and Malta, where […]