Quality monitoring

According to different news resources, in 2006 a political decision was made to lower fuel quality monitoring requirements for fuel stations, in order to reduce the administrative burden. As a result, there was no need to develop laboratories for fuel quality monitoring. In August 2019, the government decided to reintroduce fuel quality control at fuel stations. On October 9, 2019, the State Inspectorate for Environmental and Technical Safety began to check fuel quality at the stations of Gazprom Neft Asia, Partner Neft and Alfa Oil (Red Petroleum). The Ministry of Economics initially approved to check only these fuel stations. It is expected that the Inspectorate will be able to check