The national government should prepare for a potential increase in domestic oil prices after global prices surged on Monday following Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+oil producers' decision to further reduce oil output by 1.16 million barrels per day, Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian said on Tuesday, April 4....
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Monday, April 3, said he favors the inclusion of the Philippine Senate in the proposed talks on Philippine-China joint oil exploration in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). “The idea of Senate ‘involvement’ is to be endorsed. Involvement...
The oil spill emanating from the sunken motor tanker (MT) Princess Empress is feared to have reached Coron, Palawan, based on satellite imagery from a United States (US)-based science agency. In a press briefing Monday, April 3, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) announced that a possible oil slick...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Navy intercepted a motor launch carrying hundreds of drums of smuggled fuel products in the sea of Sulu on Saturday, April 1. THE Navy seized more than P9-million worth of undocumented fuel products on board the M/L Anne Nur in the sea of Sulu. (NFWM photo)...
Oil slicks from the sunken MT Princess Empress tanker have reached the island of Coron, Palawan, the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) advised on Monday, April 3. Courtesy of PhilSA "The oil slicks cover a total of approximately 61.27 square kilometers and have reached the island of Coron, Palawan....
HONG KONG/RIYADH  – Oil prices soared almost six percent in Asian trade Monday morning after major producers led by Saudi Arabia announced a surprise cut of more than one million barrels per day. The West Texas Intermediate contract jumped 5.74 percent to $80.01 a barrel,...
BETTER DAYS It has been over a month since the MT Princess Empress sunk off Oriental Mindoro, causing a massive oil spill that has reached parts of Batangas, Palawan and Antique. Around 9,400 liters of oily water and 3,514 sacks of oil-contaminated materials have been collected from the oil spill...
Filipino households are in for a breather as price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) will be trimmed by a significant P9.18 to P9.20 per kilogram (kg) this month, bringing to a total P100.98 to P101.20 aggregate reduction for the standard 11-kilogram cylinder for home cooking. LPG firms that already...
The Office of the Vice President (OVP) has distributed relief goods to residents of Verde Island, who were affected by the Oriental Mindoro oil spill. In a statement, the OVP-Disaster Operations Center (OVP-DOC), with the help of the Batangas Provincial Government, Batangas Vice Governor’s Office,...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) provided food assistance to families from Oriental Mindoro, Palawan, Batangas, and Antique affected by the oil spill from the sunken MT Princess Empress. In a statement on Friday, March 31, PRC said that about 400 individuals from the municipalities of Pola and...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), local government units, and the private sector have so far provided over P76-million worth of food and non-food assistance to the victims of the oil spill in Oriental Mindoro on Feb. 28. Based on the report of the DSWD’s Disaster Response...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-6 (Western Visayas) has extended P42.78 million in aid to residents affected by the oil slick in an island town in Antique province. Claud Jan Marquez of the DSWD-6 Disaster Response Management Section said the assistance for...
