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 […]
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 […]
Cuttack: Following reports of fuel theft, a joint squad of Civil Supplies and Weights & Measures department on Monday sealed nozzles of two dispensing machines at a petrol pump in Cuttack. Besides, the squad also seized nearly 40 to 50 litres of fuel suspected to have been adulterated from a petrol pump at CDA, official […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister of Energy has officially sought permission from Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Federal Cabinet to launch Fuel Marking Programme (FMP) regarding adulteration in the petroleum products. Sources said that the programme is being launched with the Kerosene oil. The summary sent by Ministry of Energy has also proposed fixation of petroleum products’ […]
By EMN / November 10, 2017 / Comments Off on CM seeks collective efforts to resolve Naga issue Chief Minister, TR Zeliang speaking on the occassion. Dimapur, Nov. 10 (EMN): State chief minister, TR Zeliang, has sought collective effort of all the Nagas particularly the youth and students to bring about solution to the seven decades […]
Dimapur, November 6 (MExN): A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench by the Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland and Others seeking CBI enquiry into the ‘fuel adulteration case’ on November 6. The PIL, which was admitted by the High Court, have the State Chief Secretary; the […]