Recent developments

In June 2021, the Sri Lanka Standards Institution published new gasoline specification SLS 768:2021, reducing the maximum limit for sulfur from 0.05% m/m (500 mg/kg) to 0.005% m/m (50 mg/kg). In addition, this new specification also introduced maximum limits for ethanol at 5% v/v for E5 and 10% v/v for E10; and a new limit for oxygen content at 3.9% m/m for gasoline containing ethanol up to 10% v/v.

Since February 2022, Sri Lanka has been experiencing a shortage of fuel and people have suffered difficulties in obtaining fuel, including gasoline, at fuel stations. In addition to this shortage in supply, news articles have stated that there have been lots of complaints about the quality of gasoline. It has been reported that some fuel stations are blending gasoline with il