Fuel shortage in Cape Town service stations
By Chanel September
21 December 2006
Due to a shortage of fuel, Cape Town service stations are now left scrambling for supplies so that there will be enough fuel available, during the festive period.
Several service stations in the metropolitan area have run short of fuel while waiting for deliveries that arrive late and in insufficient quantities.
The petroleum industry was experiencing a huge demand and was focusing on long-distance filling stations as their priority.
Phumi Nhlapo the spokesperson for the Chevron refinery in Milnerton told the Cape Argus that production is normal and the refinery is experiencing no problems.
Nhlapo says it could be possibly be a distribution problem but that they did not know about it.
But filling station owners were clear that if they did not get sufficient fuel, they considered it a shortage.
21 December 2006
Due to a shortage of fuel, Cape Town service stations are now left scrambling for supplies so that there will be enough fuel available, during the festive period.
Several service stations in the metropolitan area have run short of fuel while waiting for deliveries that arrive late and in insufficient quantities.
The petroleum industry was experiencing a huge demand and was focusing on long-distance filling stations as their priority.
Phumi Nhlapo the spokesperson for the Chevron refinery in Milnerton told the Cape Argus that production is normal and the refinery is experiencing no problems.
Nhlapo says it could be possibly be a distribution problem but that they did not know about it.
But filling station owners were clear that if they did not get sufficient fuel, they considered it a shortage.
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