Argentina: Ex ypefianos bloquearon la destilería y se prevé escasez de combustible
More than 200 former employees of YPF cut at 3 o'clock in the morning, 4 stretches of roads that block access to the Distillery of Lujan. They demand the payment of actions that the government owed them for over 15 years.
According to Oscar Landeira, spokesman for the former ypefianos, "this time it is not closing by the courts," and it is expected that within a few days begin to dwindle fuel, as this has prevented the entry and exit of trucks to the perimeter of the refinery.
Bangladesh: Power shortage undermines Bangladesh millennium goals-W.Bank
Bangladesh needs to immediately solve persistent and widening electricity shortages to achieve a key millennium development goal (MDG) of halving poverty by 2015, a World Bank report said on Monday.
More than 40 percent of Bangladesh's nearly 150 million people are poor, or living on less than $1 per day, it said.
Canada (Alberta): Diesel outages continue
The current diesel fuel shortage could go on for quite some time, according to oil companies.
"We don't know when this will be rectified," said Petro Canada spokesperson Sneh Seetal. She said the shortage has affected all companies across Western Canada, including B.C.
She said company officials are working around the clock to try and make fuel available.
"We are taking this situation seriously. Obviously, for us, supply is fundamental and a core to our business. We have a team that's working on this."
India: Power projects face coal stoppage
The government has been grappling with coal shortage being faced by existing power plants. The shortage has been attributed to a shortfall in production of state-owned coalminers and a simultaneous failure by the utilities to tie up the quantity of imports indicated to them by the coal ministry for bridging the gap. On October 14, TOI reported that only 155.2 lakh wagons were being loaded with coal daily for power stations against 181.8 lakh in the January-March period. Imports too have come down by 4.2 rakes a day to 6.3 in July.
Indonesia: Indonesia's PLN to Build 4 Minipower Plants in West Sulawesi
State-owned electricity company PT PLN plans to build four mini power plants in West Sulawesi as part of efforts to overcome an electricity shortage in the region.
"The project is currently still being tendered out and it is expected to be completed in 2010," assistant manager of distribution of PT PLN's West Sulawesi branch, Mahmud, said here on Saturday.
Nigeria: Gunmen hijack oil ship in Nigerian oil region
Unidentified gunmen on Saturday in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta area attacked two oil vessels and briefly hijacked an oil ship belonging to Canada's Addax Petroleum, local media reported.
Lagos-based Channels TV reports said in its website that a group of oil workers including seven French citizens and ten Nigerians were seized, but soon regained freedom unharmed.
Pakistan: Bin Qasim plant generating 510 MW less power
Despite the fact that all commercial and industrial activities remained suspended on Sunday, the duration of load shedding remained unchanged. Load shedding occurs three or four times in a day and each spell is not less than two hours.
Presently, there is approximately a 700 MW shortfall of power in the city, of which, 510 MW can be met if the Bin Qasim Thermal Power Station (BQTPS) units are not operated at slower speed for the sake of saving furnace oil expenses, sources claimed.
Pakistan: No let-up in power cuts till December
A tough loadshedding will persist in the metropolitan till December as the weather conditions of the City will continue to remain hot and humid till the last sunset of this calendar year.
The weather of the City is hot these days and the situation of weather will not get improved till late December. Karachi is a coastal City and due to this fact the atmosphere is humid in the metropolitan. This humid atmosphere provides the City with hotter days than that of blazing sun. In such conditions, the electricity consumption in the City remains high. It is noteworthy that the air conditioners in the City will remain operational till late November and the electricity crisis in the City will persist in turn.
South Africa: Spectre of ‘load shedding’ return?
The spectre of ‘load shedding’ and power blackouts could return to South Africa before year-end [2008] if rumours that Eskom is set to pull two power stations off the national grid for repairs and maintenance are true.
This is the view of Philip Hampton, chief technology officer at Powermode, a specialist power management company, who says Eskom’s reported reserve capacity is less than 6% and if one or more power stations is closed down then South African consumers will be forced to “return to the dark days of rolling blackouts that characterised the first quarter of 2008”.
