Fuels

Turkey’s crude oil imports in the first six months of the year dropped to around 9.3 million tons, down 12 percent from the same period last year

More people in Bulgaria will start using solid fuel for heating due to the expected electricity price hike, according to the experts.

Wood and coal, however, are also expected to get a price increase of up to 20%, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) informs.

BELGRADE - The country's energy system is not in danger but Serbia will still have to import around 3 tons of coal for the needs of its thermal power plants and around 1 billion kWh of electricity for the forthcoming winter season, and certain oil quantities might be needed as well, officials stated at the session of the Association of Energy and Energy Mining Board of the Serbian Chamber of Co

Fuel prices in Bulgaria might drop, reports the Nova TV national channel.

According to experts, the prices of petrol and diesel fuels might decrease by 10%, due to drop of crude oil prices at global markets. 

Prices haven't been lower in the past 14 months. 

According to Nova TV, in some petrol stations across Bulgaria the lower prices are already a fact.

Turkey has shut down over 230 gas stations for selling smuggled fuel over the past 15 months, the Customs Ministry has announced, amid the struggle against illegal oil sales, which have reached alarming levels due to turmoil in neighboring Iraq and Syria.

A tanker carrying Iraqi Kurdistan crude oil has arrived at a Croatian port to be delivered to Hungarian firm MOL to the relief of the regional government, which has been hit by setbacks in the US A delivery of crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan has arrived at the Croatian Adriatic port of Omisalj, Croatia’s Jutarnji List daily reported on the late hours of Aug. 16.

Turkey is set to fall behind even China in working conditions at coal mines and will become the world’s worst, according to a fresh report by the Economy Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV), months after the tragic May 13 Soma disaster.

The Turkish environment minister has defended a much-criticized plan to build a thermal power plant at the touristic Black Sea port of Amasra, but also admitted to having his own doubts.

In a joint operation the Greek police, the General Chemical State Laboratory and financial investigators are following leads to determine whether 50,000 liters of jet fuel stolen from a Hellenic Air Force base was adulterated and sold as gasoline.

I have to admit that before I read the activity report 2012 of the Turkish Coal Enterprises (TKÄ°), I had no idea that this corporation had become one of the most profitable public enterprises in Turkey.