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On 20 May 2021, X-Press Pearl caught fire off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka. [26] The vessel was engulfed in flames by 27 May and declared a total loss . It was still afloat, and the fire was thought to be under control by Sri Lankan firefighters by the late hours of 27 May 2021. [ 27 ]
The Colombo South Waste Processing Facility (also referred to as the Karadiyana W2E Project or Karadiyana Power Station) is a municipal solid waste-fired thermal power station currently under construction at a 10-acre (40,000 m 2) site in Karadiyana, Sri Lanka.
Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, commonly known as CEYPETCO (CPC), is a Sri Lankan oil and gas company. Established in 1962 and wholly owned by the Government of Sri Lanka, it is the largest oil company in Sri Lanka. It was formed in 1961 by nationalisation and expropriation of all private oil companies in Sri Lanka at the time of its formation. [4]
Thousands of people queued for cooking gas and petrol in Sri Lanka's commercial capital on Friday and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe warned of a food shortage as the island nation battles a ...
The Ministry of Energy (Sinhala: බලශක්ති අමාත්යාංශය Balashakthi Amathyanshaya; Tamil: பெற்றோலிய வள ...
The Sri Lankan economic crisis [8] is a in Sri Lanka that started in 2019. [9] It is the country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. [9] It has led to unprecedented levels of inflation, near-depletion of foreign exchange reserves, shortages of medical supplies, and an increase in prices of basic commodities. [10]
The fuel shortfalls have also led to long lines at petrol and diesel stations over the past months. IOC supply is supported by an Indian Line of Credit of US$500 million. [7] In August 2022 Sri Lanka's Ministry of Power and Energy has authorised the establishment of 50 new fuel stations by Lanka IOC. [8]
Leaded petrol was supposed to be completely phased out continent-wide on 1 January 2006, following a ban initiated from the 2002 Earth Summit. [79] However, in Algeria refineries needed to be altered; as a result, leaded fuel remained available in parts of Algeria, [37] with phaseout scheduled for 2016. After the Algerian Government outlawed ...