Over 1, 600 stores were closed, and fuel distribution was severely disrupted, further complicating the recovery effort.
The company also announced last week that it received a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract for work on military fuel distribution systems and fuel-storage complexes.
Zhang Feng, 47, made his money in fuel distribution in Shanghai and decided he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in the business.
He still is deeply invested in Africa, operating a fuel distribution network under the Oryx brand (but unaffiliated with the newly public company) as well as Addax Bioenergy, a biofuels operation in Sierra Leone.
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Mr. GEOFF SUNDSTROM (Spokesman, Triple-A): What's occurring at the retail level and at the fuel distribution terminal is a complete draining of their gasoline inventory, the cleaning of all the equipment and storage, and then a refilling of that storage with the new Ethanol blend fuel.
Salt water swamped several large fuel-distribution centers in New Jersey when Sandy's storm surge hit Monday night.
Yesterday, FEMA announced that the President directed the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to purchase up to 12 million gallons of unleaded fuel and up to 10 million gallons of diesel fuel for distribution in areas impacted by the storm to supplement ongoing private sector efforts.
But Thailand's lawsuit is more likely to fuel the videos' distribution than to stop them.
The transfer of ULSD to the Department of Defense and the use and distribution of that fuel has the potential to provide immediate relief to the affected region.
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In addition, DG offers the ability to defer costly transmission and distribution system upgrades and enables fuel hedging.
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And although the trial will help to work out the best way to deliver the fuel cell's hydrogen, and how to build a suitable distribution network, it will not necessarily bring the price down to the point where fuel cells can compete with petrol or diesel.
Electrical power is necessary to support other critical infrastructures, including supply and distribution of water, food, fuel, communications, transport, financial transactions, emergency services, government services, and all other infrastructures supporting the national economy and welfare.
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Cash transfers, especially in lieu of cheap food or fuel distributed through a vast network of public distribution shops, can lead to misuse by family members and result in higher food prices in the market.
Beyond that, transportation costs from the farm to distribution centers and retailers will add more fuel to cost escalation.
However, since natural gas extraction from shale deposits is an expensive process, it makes perfect sense for the company to invest in distribution networks to spur the demand for the fuel.
The NRC staff initially selected three of these recommendations --enlarging emergency evacuation zones, expanding potassium iodide distribution, and accelerating the transfer of spent fuel from pools to dry casks -- for further evaluation.
Generation and distribution are large capital expenditures while the engineering, fuel and maintenance all add up.
But the statement added that its stocks will only last for three weeks and distribution is dependent on the availability of trucks and fuel.
Fuel from Grangemouth is distributed right across Scotland, although other distribution points like Shell's oil terminal in Aberdeen and the Inverness depot have also been picketed.
The farm sector has been handicapped by myriad difficulties, among them a lack of essential inputs, such as fuel, working farm equipment and seeds, and a deplorable distribution system.
The proposals would also enable the gas distribution companies to connect around 80, 000 "poor fuel households" to the gas network for the first time, and pay for carbon monoxide awareness programmes.
As a venture capitalist, I would not have invested in cellulosic without corn ethanol's partial alleviation of the risks of creating a market, creating distribution terminals, E85 pumps and starting our flex-fuel fleet.
After the strike began on Friday, many drivers from other distribution firms refused to cross the picket line to fill up on fuel.
However now, with the fuel cells being so fuel efficient in small sizes, and their cost rapidly declining with volume manufacture, we seem to be coming to a tipping point where distributed fuel cell generation may be less expensive than conventional integrated generation, particularly when the cost of transmission and distribution is increasing so rapidly.
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