Petroleum and fuel dyes is general name for a family of aromatic substance, either organic or synthetic, which are used to add colour characteristics to Fuels and other petroleum products. These complex unsaturated substances have inherent characteristics like solubility and intense colour, and exhibits good affinity towards substrate on which it is being applied. Request […]
MINES minister Tom Alweendo said illegal fuel should be discouraged as it is against the law, deprives the state of much-needed revenue, compromises public safety and poses an environmental risk. Speaking whilst launching the fuel information-sharing campaign at the border point of Oshikango in the Ohangwena region on Friday, Alweendo stated that the increase of […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has already drafted the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for the fuel marking program which is set for implementation next year to suppress oil smuggling in the country. The Bureau of Customs, together with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), will lead the fuel marking program’s implementation. The BIR […]
In recent years, the government of Zambia became aware they had a problem with illegal fuel dumping and/or adulteration. In fact, Zambia’s Energy Regulation Board (ERB) estimated that these activities were depriving the government of 81 million dollars USD per year in fuel tax revenue. To determine what fuel products were being manipulated, and where […]
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 […]