Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas  

Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is meeting the full demand of POL. The status of POL supplies in Andaman & Nicobar Islands as on 17.1.2005 is as under:  

Product

Stock (KL)

Cover (No. of days)

Sale on 13.1.05

MS (Petrol)

615

20

--

SKO (Kerosene)

3356

134

--

HSD (Diesel)

9463

27

243

ATF Andaman

Car Nicobar

2341

352

19

17

36

05

LPG (MT)

860

61

--

 LPG stocks are being replenished on priority. A team of officers of IOC is camping in Port Blair to monitor the stocks and supplies. Fresh stocks of MS, HSD, SKO and ATF would be dispatched from Haldia through MT Harsha and are expected to reach Port Blair on 13.1.2005. A LPG tanker carrying 800 MT LPG is expected to reach Port Blair on 14.1.2005. This would provide 75 days cover. Petroleum products are being regularly transported to other Islands also in barrels as per the requirement conveyed by the administration, and there is no report of non-availability of the products.