PhotoBlog - petroleum

24
May
2012
5:49pm, EDT
Fuel tankers sit idle in Pakistan during dispute with US over supply routes to Afghanistan
Fareed Khan / AP
Oil tankers, which were used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, are parked in a compound in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday.
Fareed Khan / AP
Oil tankers, which were used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, are parked in Karachi on Wednesday.
Reuters reports that Pakistan has kept supply routes to NATO troops in Afghanistan closed for six months:
The United States has been pushing Pakistan to re-open supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan in difficult talks that show no signs of a breakthrough any time soon.
Pakistan closed the routes, seen as vital to the planned withdrawal of most foreign troops from Afghanistan before the end of 2014, in protest against last November's killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a NATO air attack along the Afghan border.
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Fareed Khan / AP
A Pakistani man selling cold drinks pushes his bicycle between oil tankers, which were used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, in a compound in Karachi.
Slideshow: Pakistan: A nation in turmoil
Muhammed Muheisen / AP
Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.
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Get every American out of that paki ghetto now! This failed, corrupt, worthless country is not an ally, but only a lying, cheating, conniving, corrupt, scum ridden hindrance to any kind of world peace. Pakistan has never been any kind of support to the USA, and long,long ago it would have been to th …
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23
Mar
2012
2:11pm, EDT
Cairo fuel shortage causes long lines at gas stations
Amr Nabil / AP
Vehicles, at left, line up in front of a gas station in Cairo, Egypt on Fruiday. An acute fuel shortage in Egypt has disrupted Cairo's already congested traffic, with long lines of vehicles snaking around gas stations, and drivers spending the night in their cars.
Amr Nabil / AP
People stand near their cars as they line up in front of a gas station in Cairo.
The New Straits Times reports that the reason for the fuel shortage isn't clear:

Petroleum Minister Abdullah Ghorab flatly dismissed talk of a shortage, saying fuel supplies exceed demand. He said the crisis stems from “mistrust between the government and the citizens,” according to the state-run MENA news agency.

Another Petroleum ministry official, Hani Dahi, was also quoted by MENA as saying that there is “a rise in the illegal use of fuel” and calling for tighter security measures to prevent black market dealers selling subsidised fuel at higher prices.

However, the manager of one gas station in Fayoum, a city south of Cairo, put the blame squarely on the government’s shoulders and its stewardship of the economy. “I used to get a daily supply of 30,000 liters (7,900 gallons) of diesel, now I get 13,000 every three days,” said the manager, who asked not to be identified. “Any talk about smuggling is a sheer lie because if there is enough fuel in the market, none would buy from the black market.”

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hmmm sounds like they got thier way to screw the citizens with gas prices just like we got our ways in the us to screw the citizens with fuel prices, we think we went through a recession? we havent even seen the beginning of a recession, when gas hit five bucks or more, everybodies lives will go do …
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6
Sep
2011
4:22pm, EDT
Tar balls wash ashore on Gulf Coast following Tropical Storm Lee
Jay Reeves / AP
Brandon Franklin picks up a tar ball washed in by Tropical Storm Lee from amid shells at Gulf Shores, Ala., on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Franklin, coastal plans manager for the city, said the tar balls are suspected of being pieces of submerged tar mats left over from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Officials said Tuesday that they plan to test the black and brown globs to find out if they're related to last year's oil spill.
Jay Reeves / AP
Tar balls washed in by Tropical Storm Lee are amid shells on the beach at Gulf Shores, Ala., on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. City officials suspect the tar balls are left over from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last summer. Officials said Tuesday that they plan to test the black and brown globs to find out if they're related to last year's oil spill.
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Slideshow: World’s thirst for oil
Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters
Around the globe countries are drilling for it, distributing it, trading it and looking for ways to run their economies with replacements for it.
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11
May
2011
4:38pm, EDT
TODD KOROL / Reuters
First nations natives from British Columbia protest in front of the headquarters of Enbridge before the company's annual general meeting in Calgary, Alberta, May 11, 2011. The natives are protesting an oil pipeline that will go through their land.
First Nations group protests a planned oil pipeline in Canada
You can read more about the project and the protest here.
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24
Mar
2011
7:35pm, EDT
Aerial images show illegal oil refineries in Nigeria's delta region
Akintunde Akinleye / Reuters
A view of an illegal oil refinery is seen in Ogoniland outside Port Harcourt in Nigeria's Delta region March 24, 2011.Crude oil thieves -- known locally as "bunkerers" -- have been a fact of life for years in Africa's biggest oil and gas industry, puncturing pipelines and costing Nigeria and foreign oil firms millions of dollars in lost revenues each year.
Akintunde Akinleye / Reuters
Smoke rises from an illegal oil refinery in Ogoniland outside Port Harcourt in Nigeria's Delta region.
Akintunde Akinleye / Reuters
Oil surfaces on water near an illegal oil refinery in Ogoniland outside Port Harcourt in Nigeria's Delta region March 24, 2011.
Here's an article that provides some context for the existence of "bush refineries."
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the site is intimidating and dreadful which it need urgent attention
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28
Feb
2011
5:22pm, EST
EDGARD GARRIDO / Reuters
Taxis remain idle during a strike by taxi drivers outside the presidential house in Tegucigalpa February 28, 2011. The taxi drivers are demanding the government of President Porfirio Lobo pay a bonus to offset rising fuel prices, according to the Honduran Association of taxi drivers (ATAXISH). According to the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Juan Jose Cruz, the rise in fuel prices is due to the political crisis in the Middle East.
Taxi drivers strike in Honduras to demand pay increases to offset rising fuel costs
By John Brecher
I wonder how the rising price of fuel affects the ice cream seller - are his supplies more costly, or do the protests create more business? Here are some recent stories about Honduras.
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18
Jan
2011
1:36pm, EST
Matt Rourke / AP
Fracking opponents protest before the Tom Corbett inauguration to become the 46th governor of Pennsylvania at the state capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011.
Protest at Pennsylvania governor's inauguration against hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas industry
By John Brecher
Fracking is short for hydraulic fracturing, a process used to increase the flow of oil and gas from underground wells. According to this article about the controversy over fracking, incoming Governor Tom Corbett is seen as friendlier to the gas industry than outgoing governor Ed Rendell. Here's some more info about the Marcellus Shale rock formation, where the drilling is taking place.
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Fracturing was known in the early 1980s to cause severe environmental problems. A scientist I know wrote a report outlining the problems to government authorities in Colorado. The report was never published because of opposition by Dick Cheney. All parties who wrote the report were fired.
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1
Jul
2010
1:25pm, EDT
Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP-Getty Images
A man walks near the spilled crude oil on the shores and in the waters of the Niger Delta swamps of Bodo, a village in the famous Nigerian oil-producing Ogoniland, which hosts the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Nigeria's Rivers State on June 24, 2010. The region has in recent years experienced an average 300 spills a year, roughly one spill a day, from terminals, pipes and platforms, according to government officials and experts. Sabotage of oil facilities by armed rebels fighting for a fairer share of oil wealth for locals, and theft of crude (popularly known as oil bunkering) in recent years saw spills spiking to new levels.
A spill per day, almost
As bad as the oil gusher is in the Gulf of Mexico, a look at Nigeria shows how it could be worse.
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Fair enough earl1, but i don't think even the "thugs" have control over what Shell (an American company) is doing to their country. What makes the Gulf of Mexico spill potentially worse than this? Nothing! Only the opinions of Americans who are happy to @!$%# up the rest of the world.
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