Mangaluru ISRPL gets 2 million barrel crude oil from Abu Dhabi
Mangaluru, May 21: The Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Limited (ISPRL), one of the emergency fuel store houses in the country, got two million barrel crude oil from Abu Dhabi national Petrol Company on Monday. With this, the ISRPL, near MRPL of Mangaluru, commissioned its service on Monday. This fuel could be used for ten days during emergency.
Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Sanjay Sudhir, who inaugurated the occasion, said that among three ISPRL centres in the country, Mangaluru centre has the capacity of 1.5 million metric tons. However, Paduru centre has the capacity of 2.5 million metric tons and Visakhapatnam centre has the capacity of 1.33 million metric ton fuel storage. Shortly, some more crude oil would be filled in the centre. In the same way, Paduru underground fuel storage centre would also get the fuel in a phased manner, he said.
As per the agreement made between India and Abu Dhabi during the visit of the UAE delegates for Republic Day celebrations, the crude oil was imported as the first phase, for which he would thank the UAE government, Sanjay said.
National Oil Company Market, Distribution and Industry director Abdullah Salim Ul Dhaheri said that his country and the company would be looking forward to work with India. With this agreement, his company would distribute 10 percent of the total production in India, he said.
MRPL managing director H Kumar, ISPRL CEO and managing director HPS Ahuja, NRI businessman BR Shetty and others were present.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
