{"id":22871,"date":"2026-07-16T11:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22871"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:50:04","slug":"pakistan-has-only-15-days-of-petrol-reserves-left-oil-companies-urge-immediate-government-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22871","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Has Only 15 Days of Petrol Reserves Left, Oil Companies Urge Immediate Government Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oil companies have warned of a possible petrol shortage in Pakistan and urged the government to intervene immediately.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an &#8220;urgent&#8221; letter sent to Minister for Energy (Petroleum Division) Ali Pervaiz Malik, the Oil Companies Advisory Council (OCAC) said the country&#8217;s petrol supply situation has become critically serious.<\/p>\n<p>According to the letter, Pakistan currently has around 370,000 metric tonnes of motor spirit (petrol) in stock, enough to meet national demand for only 15 days.<\/p>\n<p>The oil industry warned that petrol supplies could be disrupted if immediate corrective measures are not taken.<\/p>\n<p>OCAC said delays in the WeBOC customs clearance system are slowing the release of imported petrol shipments, placing additional pressure on the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>The council warned that if three imported petrol cargoes are not cleared on time, the country&#8217;s fuel supply could face a significant disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Oil companies also said outstanding payments of Rs66.7 billion have pushed oil marketing companies into severe financial stress.<\/p>\n<p>According to industry sources, critically low reserves, customs clearance delays, rising demand and financial constraints are increasing the risk of fuel supply disruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil companies have warned of a possible petrol shortage in Pakistan and urged the government to intervene immediately. In an &#8220;urgent&#8221; letter sent to Minister for Energy (Petroleum Division) Ali Pervaiz Malik, the Oil Companies Advisory Council (OCAC) said the country&#8217;s petrol supply situation has become critically serious. According to the letter, Pakistan currently has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[13115,13114,128,13111,12897,4665,9168,210,13112,11539,13113],"class_list":["post-22871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-fuel-crisis","tag-imported-petrol","tag-ministry-of-energy","tag-ocac","tag-oil-companies","tag-pakistan-economy","tag-pakistan-news","tag-petrol","tag-petrol-reserves","tag-petrol-shortage","tag-weboc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22873,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22871\/revisions\/22873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}