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Lack of diesel fuel recorded in Eastern Siberia

The agreement between the government and oil companies to freeze small wholesale fuel prices changed the trade policy of large oil companies - in some cases they refused discounts for small wholesale buyers, switched to a full prepayment system, and also reduced shipments to independent gas stations, Kommersant writes citing sources . The released volumes of fuel were mainly sent to their own gas stations, and also partially sold on the stock exchange or left at oil depots.

Such actions have led to the fact that in Eastern Siberia, where the share of independent filling stations is large, the situation is already taking on the character of a local shortage of petroleum products. According to one of Kommersant's interlocutors, in Irkutsk, Chita, Krasnoyarsk and the Altai Territory, requests for independent fuel filling stations were fulfilled by 5–10% last week.

Evgeny Reshetnikov, President of the Union of Petrol Station Owners of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, said that the situation with fuel shortages has been observed at gas stations for the past week, the most problematic position is diesel fuel. Gazprom Neft declares its readiness to sell fuel, but in fact does not provide resources, which creates even more tension, as it makes it difficult to plan supplies, says Andrey Chernov, CEO of Krasnoyarsknefteprodukt JSC. As a result, market participants are trying to buy goods from Rosneft; there is a line of hundreds of fuel trucks at the company's Achinsk refinery.

At the same time, Gazpromneft-Regional Sales assures that the company did not reduce the volume of deliveries to the Krasnoyarsk Territory. And at the Achinsk refinery, queues are associated with increased demand for winter diesel fuel and the fact that independent market participants did not stock up in advance.