When will petrol-95 become more expensive?

Petrol-95 and gas disappeared from some petrol stations in Minsk. The web-resource auto.onliner.by has informed that "Sales of gas and petrol-95 will be stopped everywhere today or tomorrow". Indeed, there is no petrol-95 at some of Minsk petrol stations.

Petrol station “Gaspromnafta”: “There's no petrol-95, we ran out of it, and there will be no shipments in the nearest two days”.

"Belarusnafta" claimed to Euroradio that if there were problems with petrol, this was an internal problem of a certain petrol station, as "Belarusnafta" shipped the fuel as before.

"Belarusnafta": “We have contracts, we ship the fuel in accordance with these contracts to everyone with whom we have agreements. Ask "Gaspromnafta", may be this is their internal business”.

"Gaspromnafta" refused to explain us the reasons.

They say at the Belarusian oil processing plants that the fuel is loaded in full scope.

"The plant works as it did before. We do not load less fuel than before", — deputy general manager on economics of the company "Naftan" Anatol Yudaeu has told to Euroradio.

"We did not start loading less. We load the petrol to "Belarusnafta" through the oil bases", — deputy general manager on economics of Mazyr oil processing plant says.

Euroradio: Are you satisfied with current prices for fuel? Is it profitable for you?

Mazyr OPP: "Naturally, we would like higher prices, as if we compare our prices with the ones in the neighbouring countries, we'll see that the price level is much higher there. I think we should have the same level, whether someone likes it or not. Prices should be fair and correspond with the price level around".

Let us remind you, Aliaksandr Lukashenka unexpectedly allowed to increase prices for petrol-95 at a press-conference recently. However, about three weeks passed but the prices remained the same.

The deputy general manager on economics of Mazyr oil processing plant thinks that bureaucracy may be the reason for this:

"The procedure is probably taking much time, they need to coordinate all the papers everywhere…"

However, prices for fuel were decreased the next day after Lukashenka's speech last time ("Let us agree that fuel will cost not 5300, not 5100, but 4500 at the maximum since tomorrow morning").

Spokesperson of the "Belnaftahim" concern Maryna Kastsiuchenka still does not confirm increase of price for petrol.

Kastsiuchenka: “Such information appears every day at some web-sites. I do not confirm it by now".