Fuel shortages hit Tyumen Region districts

Fuel supply disruptions are being observed in the Tyumen Region. Our readers report this. Open sources also indicate that at some gas stations gasoline is completely unavailable.

«In Sladkovo there is a Gazprom Neft gas station. Everyone goes there to refuel. Sometimes there is no gasoline in the mornings. They deliver it around five. There is a limit of 40 liters for gasoline and 80 liters for diesel. In the village of Maslyansky there is a private gas station. There AI-92 costs 150 rubles ($2), AI-95 costs 155 rubles ($2), diesel costs 160 rubles ($2). If drivers don»t want to go to Sladkovo, that«s an option for them. In Ishim it»s a bit easier. Yes, there are disruptions. One of the gas stations allows filling canisters,« a resident of Sladkovsky district told us.

On Sunday, 12 July, the administration of Nizhnetavdinsky district published information about the absence of gasoline at the Gazprom Neft gas station in Nizhnyaya Tavda due to a logistics disruption. The fuel reserve ran out because of increased demand, «since many guests came to the district on the weekend and everyone tried to fill up as much as possible.» Delivery was expected on Monday evening or Tuesday.

Today our reader told us about the situation in the village.

«Gasoline was delivered to Gazprom Neft about twice during the week. Everything is taken in one day. TPK also ran out. Diesel fuel was available at both yesterday,» he wrote.

Residents of Kazansky district faced gasoline shortages last week. Two gas stations had no fuel. It was absent for several days. Now, according to our reader, the situation has normalized.

«A fuel tanker arrived on 18 July. Now they deliver every day. There were queues on Saturday, but now everything has normalized,» a local resident said.

Another interlocutor traveled to Golyshmanovo at the end of last week. Along the Yalutorovsk highway he stopped at gas stations. According to him, there was no fuel at the Gazprom Neft station in Bogandinsky.

«In Yalutorovsk itself the gas station was working, but there were long queues. In Zavodoukovsk, Novaya Zaimka, and Berdyuzhye there was no fuel. In the village of Armizonskoye at a gas station, prices are high: AI-92 is 145 rubles ($2), AI-95 is 160 rubles ($2), diesel is 165 rubles ($2), gas is 34 rubles ($0). In Golyshmanovo, gasoline was available on Friday morning,» the interlocutor says.

For example, according to 2GIS service data, at the time of writing this material, fuel was absent at the Gazprom Neft station in Zavodoukovsk; in Novaya Zaimka only diesel was available; in Berdyuzhye there is AI-92 and diesel; in Golyshmanovo there is no fuel.

On Monday we launched an online update covering the gasoline situation in Tyumen and the region. We drove around gas stations in the city and talked to drivers.

Tyumen drivers are not always able to refuel their cars on the first try. We reported on one such story yesterday. A Tyumen woman visited five gas stations.