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

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

The planned scuttling of the superannuated Brent Spark oil rig sparks off an international protest

A major pipeline explosion exposes the danger posed by Russia's 140,000 km long high pressure gaslines

THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will be ardently serenaded by the rest of the world over the next 15 years. This much was predicted by the Paris-based International

DESPITE widespread apprehensions about its potential health hazards, super-unleaded petrol is set to stay in the UK. In late March, the British govemment rejected the calls bya group of mps

THE Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is uneasy about Russia's enormous oil reserves. A major worry, reports the Asian Wall Street Journal, is the huge volume of Russian oil that

A EUROPEAN Community plan to introduce a carbon tax to reduce oil consumption and pollution may run into heavy weather in Japan, Malaysia and some other East Asian states, whose officials say they

REOPENING the Metsamor nuclear power plant is turning out to be a devil of a problem for beleaguered Armenia. The plant had supplied almost half of Armenia's electricity requirements, but was