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You can be sure that land developers are now salivating and preparing to bid for the Pandacan oil depot once the Big 3 oil companies—Petron, Shell and Chevron—leave it in 2016. It is a big piece of ...
MANILA, Philippines - The Pandacan oil depot has won another round in its bid to remain in the city after the Manila City Council passed on final reading yesterday an ordinance, which amends an ...
Finally, Pandacan oil depot dismantled. Sunday, May 11, 2025 Today's Paper. ... The high court in November last year declared Manila Ordinance 8187 that allowed three oil firms to keep their ...
Recently, the City Council of Manila started moves to amend Ordinance 8027 by reverting to industrial classification the land on which the Pandacan oil depot is located.
MANILA, Philippines–The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the relocation of the Pandacan oil depot as it declared unconstitutional a Manila ordinance that allowed the oil storage facilities to ...
As Manila grappled with a gas spill in the Pasig River from a small depot, Malacañang confirmed on Monday that it was reviewing a controversial proposal to transfer the oil depots out of Pandacan.
The oil depot started as a small facility in 1914. Pandacan predates the oil depot by centuries. A settlement near the mouth of the Pasig River, it is home to many heroes and poets.
Two of the oil giants operating within the Pandacan oil depot in Manila have expressed contradicting views over the proposed ordinance that would require them to relocate their fuel storage ...
MANILA, Philippines – Unresolved by 3 administrations for more than a decade, efforts to close down the oil depot of multinational firms in Pandacan, Manila, have finally borne fruit.. On ...
Last November the SC declared unconstitutional and invalid Manila City Ordinance 8187, which the oil companies were using to justify the continued operation of the Pandacan oil depot.
Pandacan oil depot should be included in tanker blast probe - Lim Published January 25, 2008 7:54am The investigation on the possible negligence that led to Wednesday night’s tanker explosion along ...
PRICES of petroleum products are likely to increase when the oil depot in Pandacan, Manila is shut down after the Supreme Court ordered the country’s top oil companies to relocate their storage ...