The Report looks in-depth at how India’s role on the global oil market may evolve over the period through to 2030. It examines investment plans for the refining and petrochemical industry and how these developments may impact Indian crude and product net trade. The Report looks at energy transition trends …
the government has chalked out a plan for saving petrol worth Rs 10,000 crores per year by giving a boost to the ethanol industry. In this regard, the ministry of non-conventional energy has prepared a paper that would be placed before the new cabinet for approval. According to S S …
two major Russian oil firms have planned to join hands. According to Russian officials, the merger would create a new force to be reckoned with on the domestic and global energy. Yukos, Russia's second largest oil producer and its number one refiner, will take a 60 per cent stake in …
This tiny Asian nation, still struggling to gain a secure economic foothold, is pressing ahead with its first oil refinery which has already become a centre of controversy. Work on the us $1.2 billion prestige project began recently, despite a fund-shortage and doubts over its viability. The refinery is being …
At a time when Chinese authorities are enforcing strict measures to control motor pollution, domestic refineries have started producing unleaded gasoline. Government authorities say that the shift in the production to unleaded petrol will not require extra imports, as several refineries in China have been gearing up to produce unleaded …
scientists have devised various methods to recycle old tyres into new ones. Now Kirk Manfredi, a chemist at the University of Northern Iowa, usa , has developed a technique to produce lemon oil from discarded tyres. He produces limonene, which is the main ingredient in the oil of lemons and …
Green activists have pledged to intensify their struggle against the Burma-Thai gas pipeline project planned by the Petroleum Authority of Thailand which is threatening verdant tracts of forests in the Kanchanaburi province. Environmental groups of Burma and Thailand recently held an emergency meeting following the approval of environmental impact assessment …
the world's only known natural habitat of the rare Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) could be threatened by Thailand's bid to bring natural gas from offshore fields in Myanmar. The size of a bumble bee and weighing only two grams when fully grown, the bat is considered to be the …
Experts in this island nation are of the opinion that air pollution from industries and oil refineries should be closely monitored to establish any adverse effects on crops and vegetation, animals and groundwater. Taking cue from an article by V Basanayake, general president of the Sri Lanka Association for the …
The government of Ecuador has invited private bids to build a second 514-km oil pipeline under a 20-year operating concession. The 500-km state pipeline built in 1972, has already been expanded twice. Currently, Ecuador can produce a maximum of about 385,000 barrels per day. The hallmark of the new pipeline …
The spirit of Ken Saro-Wiwa still lives on in Ogoniland and so does the spectre of Royal Dutch Shell, the petrochemicals giant. According to the movement for the survival of the Ogoni people (mosop) leader Ledum Mitee, crackdown by the Nigerian military over the past year in Ogoniland has assumed …
The year 1995 saw a rise of 1.8 per cent in global energy consumption, the highest annual growth rate since 1989 and more than double the average rate of the past five years. The main boost came from a slackening in the pace of decline in the former Soviet Union, …
IN AN attempt to lower emission levels of vehicles, the Supreme Court has directed the petroleum ministry to study the viability of propane as an alternate fuel and submit, a report by December 9. The ministry said that sufficient supplies of propane are avail- able to run about 75,000 two- …
Mobil, the oil company, may be putting at risk the lives of hundreds of Amazonian tribespeople with the massive search for oil it is about to launch in Peru's southern rainforests. The company plans to survey nearly 15,000 sq km for the purpose. The Copenhagen- based International Work Group for …
ALL predictions about the world having sufficient oil stocks for the next 30 years may have been a lot of wishful thinking after all. A recent report from the World Resources Institute (WRI) based in Washington DC, says that oil supplies could start drying up as early as 2007 AD, …
The oil boom in the Gulf has taken a toll of the wheat farms of Saudi Arabia. Large tracts of rich, arable land are slowly drying up in the Saudi Arabian desert as the once lucrative wheat farming has lost its appeal. The oil boom of'70s- '80s saw the country …
Bombings of two oil depots of the state owned Ceylon Petroleum Corp (CPQ by the Sri LankqJ Tigers has left the tiny island state literally fuel-less. SO much so that the Sri Lankan government intends to big diesel and jet fuel from foreign countries. It is now in tflp process …
Centrifugal oil cleaners, develOP4 by Britain's Glacier Filter Prodaft company, would soon oust tzvd9W tional paper oil filters in cam HE% production vehicles introduction them from next year. These cleaners, offering M"4 component wear, have been successfully only in marine truck diesel engines for over years. There can be cost-e …
Nepal's dependence on imported vehicular fuel may become a thing of the past. Oil exports Xt believe that the country has a vast potential to produce Lt- bio-diesel from the seeds of oil bearing plants. Nepal a ce produce a large quantity of plant oil through a pro" nt called …
Brazilian researchers claim that they have been able to turn the oil of the African palm into a diesel substitute (Indian Forester, Vol 121,No4). This exceptional fuel possesses thermodynamic properties that are far superior to those of diesel fuel that is obtained from crude oil. It has been tested with …
AS the disused Brent Spar oil platform makes its slow journey towards its disposal site in the Atlantic, irate protests to bring it to a stop have reached a crescendo, particularly in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, neighbouring the North Sea. Facing the barrage are the United Kingdom and …
