More carmakers caught in headlights of VW engine-rigging scandal

More carmakers caught in headlights of VW engine-rigging scandal
Volkswagen has admitted it installed illegal software into 11 million 2.0 liter and 3.0 liter diesel engines worldwide (AFP Photo/Josh Edelson)

Volkswagen emissions scandal

Iran's 'catastrophic mistake': Speculation, pressure, then admission

Iran's 'catastrophic mistake': Speculation, pressure, then admission
Analsyts say it is irresponsible to link the crash of a Ukraine International Airline Boeing 737-800 to the 737 MAX accidents (AFP Photo/INA FASSBENDER)

Missing MH370 likely to have disintegrated mid-flight: experts

Missing MH370 likely to have disintegrated mid-flight: experts
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 commercial jet.

QZ8501 (AirAsia)

Leaders see horror of French Alps crash as probe gathers pace

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Poor security and kite flying noted at Plumpang fuel depot

Alfian, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 01/20/2009 2:44 PM  

Despite being the country’s most vital distribution point  for fuel supply to the capital, the Plumpang depot run by state-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina has been run for far too long with extremely lax levels of security.

While investigations into the cause of Sunday’s blast have not reached clear conclusions, top officials have commented on the weaknesses and vulnerability of lax depot security, as well as noting previous terrorist threats.

Located in a dense housing area of North Jakarta, the depot is only marked off by a thin wire fence, without any safety ditch or even modest barriers.

Empty spaces just outside the depot have often been used by the locals to fly kites, hovering low above the depot.

There are a growing numbers of thugs who have regularly extorted truck drivers on their way to the depot, stealing fuel left in trucks for sale on the nearby black market.

“The safety standard of all Pertamina depots will be reviewed. Not only for Plumpang,” said State Minister for State Enterprises Sofyan Djalil in response to the weak security at the Plumpang fuel depot.

It was not until the blast that he requested Pertamina to construct a 50 meter wide water-filled ditch. 

With 20 percent of national fuel distribution capacity in the depot, tank number 24 exploded late Sunday, with the loss of 3,000 kiloliters of subsidized Premium gasoline.

Plumpang is Pertamina’s largest depot for supplying fuel in Greater Jakarta, which needs around 9,420 kiloliters of Premium and 4,677 kiloliters of subsidized diesel per day. 

The depot’s installed storage capacity is actually bigger than the available area should hold, and the area should be expanded in view of the number of tanks. It has 24 storage tanks; seven for gasoline, five for diesel and the remaining for other fuels including liquefied petroleum gas and aviation fuel.

The depot’s Premium tanks have a total storage capacity of 85,348 kiloliters, with 91,456 kiloliters for diesel.  The Sunday inferno stopped depot operations for 18 hours. Although there was no massive shortage in Greater Jakarta, several gas stations ran out fuel Monday, said downstream oil and gas regulator BPHMigas head Tubagus Haryono. 

Pertamina claimed it had complied with security standards and safety procedures.

“The depot tanks passed a certified test before they were put into operation,” the embattled Pertamina president director, Ari H. Soemarno, said.

The police anti-terrorist squad found materials used for creating bombs in a house located in the neighborhood of the depot in October last year.

Ari admitted the depot was just too close to the surrounding neighborhood. “The land occupied by the residents is actually Pertamina’s and occupied illegally. This matter needs to be regulated in the future.”

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a retired three-star Army general, has frequently visited the depot on the occasion of fuel shortages in Greater Jakarta, but somehow missed seeing the extremely poor security of the depot in terms of fencing and safety ditches.

 

Plumpang depot profile

  • Located in Plumpang, North Jakarta
  • Built in 1972 and began operation in 1974
  • The depot has 24 storage tanks in total
  • Seven of the tanks are for Premium gasoline storage with a total capacity of 85,348 kiloliters. Five other tanks are for diesel with a total capacity of 91,456 kiloliters.
  • The remaining tanks are for other fuels.
  • Plumpang depot serves 645 fuel stations in Greater Jakarta. It distributes 9,420 kiloliters Premium gasoline and 4,677 kiloliters diesel per day. It supplies high octane Pertamax amounting to 531 kiloliters per day and Pertamax Plus amounting to 190 kiloliters.

No comments: