As LPG truckers’ stir continues, OMCs take steps to ease provide

Because the stoppage of operations by the Southern Area Bulk LPG Transport House owners’ Affiliation continues, the state-owned oil advertising and marketing firms (OMCs) have activated what they name plan B to make sure provides to 2.37 crore energetic home shoppers in Tamil Nadu and eight crore shoppers within the six southern States.

The three firms – Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum, and Bharat Petroleum – are working additional shifts at bottling vegetation that get liquefied petroleum gasoline (LPG) provides by way of pipelines. They’re additionally sending cylinder-carrying vans., to those vegetation to gather refilled cylinders. “The three firms that market LPG underneath Indane, HP Gasoline, Bharat Gasoline manufacturers are serving to one another too. Crops with pipeline provides are engaged on Sunday additionally,” mentioned an official with the HPCL.

So far as Chennai is anxious, Indian Oil has two bottling vegetation which can be linked. The Chennai Petroleum Company refinery at Manali additionally provides LPG to IOCL. Official sources in Indian Oil mentioned town wouldn’t face any difficulty in drawing provides as they’d four-and-a-half days of inventory left.

A distributor of one other firm mentioned his final load was distributed on Saturday. For Monday, instead of his common two hundreds per day, he’ll get just one. “I used to be informed to go to the plant of one other oil firm to choose up the load,” he mentioned.

One other distributor mentioned that regardless of this being the Deepavali season, bookings weren’t too excessive. “They’re simply above regular. We will handle. However deliveries are taking about three to 4 days and never on the identical day,” he mentioned.

The Southern Area Bulk LPG Transport House owners Affiliation is protesting towards new contract norms for tanker lorries supplying LPG.

Affiliation president Okay. Sunderraj mentioned they’d day-long conferences with senior officers of the OMCs, and had been ready for a optimistic response. “Our contract interval obtained over by August 31 and the brand new interval begins solely on November 1… Single truck house owners are additionally a part of our affiliation and about 500 of these vans have been affected by sure points. We would like these to be resolved. We don’t intend to hassle shoppers in any method throughout the festive season,” he mentioned.