Despite having the world’s largest oil reserves, years of mismanagement and theft have led Venezuela to a bizarre turn of events. Gasoline is so scarce in the country that, in recent months, smugglers have been bringing it in from Colombia and Brazil, a complete reversal of traditional routes. Colombian officials in the northern border departments […]
Our country is experiencing an unprecedented shortage of fuel, even in Caracas. What are the causes and the solutions? Simón Herrera Celis May 15, 2020 Why regular folks have no access to fuel in the country? A conjunction of old and new facts explains the situation; refineries in Venezuela, all state-owned, are practically shut down. […]
By James Osborne WASHINGTON – Almost as long as people have been drilling oil and turning it into fuel, there have been criminals ready to steal that fuel for sale on the black market. But sophisticated new techniques in chemical fuel marking are starting to make a dent in developing countries where fuel theft proliferates, […]
The current contract for the fuel marking scheme expires in a few months, but it seems highly likely that Maputo will choose to continue the programme. After two devastating cyclones and a deadly uptick in terrorist activity in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’s economy was starting to recover—only for the coronavirus pandemic to […]
The EPA is proposing a major reorganization of its Clean Air Act (CAA) Fuels and Fuels Additive regulations (40 CFR Part 80). In the proposed revisions, the Agency says it seeks to adopt a “holistic” approach that consolidates many different and overlapping regulations in Part 80 into a new Part 1090. The revisions “will better […]
A Swiss fuel trading company with a foothold in Malta is facing court action over alleged pillaging of Libyan oil. TRIAL International, an NGO specialised in anti-impunit, has filed a criminal complaint for complicity in pillaging against the Swiss company Kolmar Group. Back in 2018 the Daphne Project had reported how Malta was at the […]
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By Betheena Unite, Manila Bulletin News Marked petroleum products under the government’s anti-oil smuggling program reached more than 7.7 billion liters since September 2019 when the fuel marking program started to be implemented. The Bureau of Customs said Thursday that it had dosed with official fuel marker a total of 7,705,434,076 liters of fuel products […]
BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 P.M.) – The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has threatened to burn ships smuggling fuel and goods in the Gulf waters, accusing officials in neighboring countries of supporting smuggling from Iran for political purposes. “We warn commodity and fuel smugglers who are harming our economic system, that if you continue smuggling operations, we will […]