Leading airlines in Russia are experiencing fuel problems

Aeroflot - Russian Airlines will be able to normalize air fuel reserves , bringing them to three -day, by the end of the week, Interfax reports with reference to the official representative of Aeroflot Oleg Mikhailov.

Aeroflot carries out work to restore the undeveloped stock to the norms established by the Federal Air Transport Agency. It is planned to restore the entire supply at the end of this week, ”he said.

On the eve of sources, including the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosavision), told the agency that the company has been operating with a daily marocial margin for several days. The representative of the department told Interfax that on Thursday the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Gennady Kurzenkov conducted a telephone conversation with the company's management.

- The situation with Aeroflot can cause a “chain reaction”

"Currently, Aeroflot has a necessary maro -bore margin for the implementation of current activities, there will be no failures and delays of flights," the department noted.

The sources of the agency reported that interruptions in deliveries occurred due to a lack of capacities of the Moscow Oil Refinery, owned by Gazprom Neft. One of their sources noted that the MNPZ was reoriented to the production of diesel fuel and its capacities are currently not enough for the release of airway.

On Thursday, the official representative of Gazprom Neft OJSC told Interfax that the company is fulfilling all its obligations to Aeroflot.

On Thursday, it also became known that Domodedovo Fuel Sert depending, the Domodedovo airport fuel complex is difficult to purchase additional volumes of airway for December 2009 - January 2010, Interfax told sources in the fuel market.

"TZK is now trying to contract additional volumes for December -January. The only company that is ready to consider the possibility of delivering additional volumes is Lukoil, the rest of the suppliers have already said that they could not provide them," the agency’s interlocutor said, noting that this issue should be resolved in the coming days.

If TZK receives a refusal from Lukoil, the company will have to request additional volumes at Rosporer, another interlocutor of the agency noted.

The Lukoil press service agency oil information (Ani) said that "the NK is ready to discuss the possibility of additional supply of fuel on mutually beneficial conditions." In turn, the head of the press service of Domodedovo Elena Galanova told Interfax that there are no problems with fuel supply at the airport. "In" Domodedovo "there are all the necessary volumes of fuel, there are no problems with suppliers," she said.

Meanwhile, one of the sources of the agency notes that the TZK problems arose due to the fact that intermediary companies that won the TZK tenders for the supply of fuel could not ensure the implementation of contracts. CJSC "Domodedovo Fewel Serdiz" provides about 15% of the airport supplies at the airport, the companies from the first dozens of TZK customers are not.

The largest carriers based in Domodedovo (Transaero, Siberia) conclude direct agreements with oil companies, they told Interfax that they did not feel the deficit and are completely confident in their partners represented by oil companies. The "Vnukovo" agency was informed that the airport has no problems with fuel supply.

In Sheremetyevo, where last weekend the backup was used up for the needs of Aeroflot, in the evening on Wednesday reported that the reserves were restored.

The situation with Aeroflot can cause a "chain reaction"

Meanwhile, sources in the fuel market note that the situation with a lack of fuel at Aeroflot in Sheremetyevo can cause a “chain reaction”. Since the fuel production is technically limited by certain volumes, the increase in supplies in Sheremetyevo can lead to consumers at some other airport may experience difficulties with airline.

The General Director of Aerofuels Group Vladimir Spiridonov (works at 22 Russian airports) told Interfax that "today there is really a difficult environment with its supply from oil refineries in the domestic air fuel market." Also, "a very small amount of product appears on the exchange."

"This can be explained by the fact that oil companies were reoriented to the production of a winter diesel, reducing the production of aviation kerosene. This can be called a Russian seasonal feature. The deficit that has arisen on the aircraft fuel market, unfortunately, leads to an increase in demand and, accordingly, vacation prices," he said.

He noted that in November, in Russian airports, due to rush prices, the cost of kerosene has already risen by 700-1000 rubles. “Given the continuing increase in the price of a airline in the domestic market in November-December, it can be assumed that Russian oil companies want to tighten prices for the European level. Today, the price of kerosene in Russia“ does not “lack” 6.5-7%, ”he added.