Sydney, April 22 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday announced the government has secured additional diesel shipments.Albanese told reporters in Sydney that four shipments, two from South Korea and one each from Brunei and Malaysia, with a combined 200 million litres of diesel, have been secured by the government in collaboration with BP and Viva Energy.He said that the government has been working to guarantee Australia’s domestic fuel supply amid global volatility and…
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Melbourne, April 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday that a major fire that broke out at one of Australia’s two oil refineries will have a minimal impact on fuel production.Albanese on Friday returned early from an official trip to Brunei and Malaysia to inspect the damage at Viva Energy’s refinery southwest of Melbourne after equipment failure caused a major fire on Wednesday night. The fire was extinguished around midday on Thursday.Speaking to reporters at the refinery, A…
Melbourne, April 16 (IANS) Authorities said on Thursday that equipment failure caused a major fire at an Australian oil refinery that is expected to affect the national fuel supply.The fire broke out at Viva Energy’s refinery in the city of Geelong, 65 km southwest of Melbourne, around 11 p.m. local time on Wednesday and was continuing to burn on Thursday morning.The facility is one of only two operational refineries in Australia and produces about 10 per cent of the national fuel supply.Michell…
Canberra, March 20 (IANS) The Australian government has struck a deal to continue subsidising the country’s two remaining oil refineries, Energy Minister Chris Bowen announced on Friday.Bowen said that the government and the operators of the two refineries have reached an agreement to amend the fuel security services payment, under which the government pays the refineries when oil prices do not cover operating costs.Viva Energy’s refinery southwest of Melbourne in the city of Geelong and Ampol’s…