Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja
The African Refiners and Distribution Association (ARDA) has called for a consensus by all stakeholders on the need for the continent to quickly take visible steps as the rest of world moves towards cleaner and renewable sources of energy.
The ARDA joined by other experts in the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) industry maintained that there’s a looming danger if Africa is left behind in the new energy transition milieu.
Executive Secretary of the association, Mr. Anibor Kragha, explained that it has become more important for Africans to embrace modern clean energy now as over 850 million Africans still depend on solid fuels or biomass for cooking.
History is replete with all manner of politicians who created a cause célèbre (a controversial issue that attracts a great deal of public attention), and then rode it like a rampaging horse to political power. And history is similarly replete with politicians who gifted their opponents the cause célèbre with which to take them out of power. One such cause célèbre seems to have cropped up naturally (unnaturally?) around the “Fix the Country” campaign, and its counter-campaigners, on the recently introduced tax increases in Ghana, which has led to increments in petroleum products and telecommunication services. The ‘Fix the Country’ campaigners insist that these measures are causing too much hardship. The government recently imposed taxes on petroleum and communication services to pay for the cost of fighting Covid-19 pandemic.
Local POL production increases 12.71% in 3rd quarter
Published On 09 May,2021 02:20 pm
The production of kerosene oil dipped by 4.50 percent and jute batching oil by 77.55 percent.
ISLAMABAD (APP) - The overall production of petroleum commodities has witnessed an increase of 12.71 percent during the first three quarters of financial year 2020-21 as compared to corresponding period of last year.
The Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants (POL) products that showed growth including kerosene oil production, which increased by 0.44 percent during the period under review, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported.
Similarly, the production of Motor Spirits, High Speed Diesel, Furnace Oil, lubricating oil, jute batching oil, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and petroleum products NO S witnessing increase of 26.10 percent, 20.70 percent, 9.09 percent, 2.93 percent, 4.53 percent, 11.55 percent and 4.59 percent respectively.
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LPG: Refiners, distributors seek adoption of clean
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WITH over 850 million Africans still dependent on solid fuel for cooking, refiners and distributors of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, have called for speedy deployment of clean cooking fuel across the continent.
The adoption, LPG experts say, would save the lives of about 600,000 people annually on the continent.
Speaking at a virtual workshop organized by African Refiners and Distribution Association (ARDA) they warned of imminent dangers if Africa fails to quickly adopt modern clean energy for cooking.
He pointed at LPG as a credible near-term solution for reducing carbon emissions against polluting solid fuels.
May 06, 2021
JAKARTA, Indonesia, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) Minister, Erick Thohir, unveils PT Pertamina (Persero) s first shipping subholding company, PT Pertamina International Shipping (PT PIS). Minister Thohir made the announcement during an inauguration ceremony on Wednesday, May 5, 2021.
Minister of State-Owned Enterprises, Erick Thohir Announces PT Pertamina International Shipping as the Company’s First Subholding Shipping Company.
The Minister stated that the inauguration was the first big step for PT PIS to further strengthen its position in the energy and marine logistics sectors. With the official inauguration of Pertamina Group s first sub-holding company, I hope PT PIS will embolden the sector to develop further and improve PT PIS position as a global leader, said Thohir.