Novak promised stabilization of gasoline prices after the completion of the repair of the refinery

Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that the supply of fuel on the stock exchange will increase in the near future. According to him, many oil refineries (refineries) resume work after repairs, so gasoline prices will soon stabilize.

“At gas stations, the situation with both gasoline and diesel fuel is at the level of inflation … We are mainly working now on the stock exchange so that the situation there stabilizes,” said the Deputy Prime Minister of TASS. At the same time, he noted that a number of refineries have postponed scheduled repairs to a later date. “Now the factories should come out of repairs, respectively, the volume of fuel supply to the exchange will increase, the situation will stabilize,” Alexander Novak assured.

Due to the growth of the export alternative and the small supply on the market, on July 12, the exchange price for AI-92 gasoline for the first time in the history of trading exceeded 62 thousand rubles per ton. The cost of AI-95 also updated record values ​​- up to 62.46 thousand rubles. per ton. Ministry of Energy and FAS suggested increase the minimum standard for exchange sales of gasoline and diesel fuel by 1 percentage point. This should increase the supply of fuel on the domestic market and stabilize prices.

According to Reuters, downtime of primary capacities at Russian refineries in July increased by 38%. Aggregate downtime increased due to the extension of the repair of the primary unit at the Astrakhan GPP by 27 days, the extension of the downtime of the primary unit at the Komsomolsk Oil Refinery by 31 days, and the extension of the ABT reserve period at the Krasnodar Oil Refinery by 31 days.

More details – in the material “Gas stations have refueled with prices”.

Anastasia Larina