The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) will in the coming days conduct tests to determine whether contaminated fuel sold by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) found its way onto the open market.
There is confusion over whether or not unwholesome fuel sold by BOST to a private trading company Movenpiina ended up at filling stations and in car engines. So far a media firestorm has been triggered after news that BOST sold around 1.5 Million liters of contaminated fuel to Movenpiina.
The transaction has caused the state to lose around Gh¢14 million, according to the Minority in Parliament. BOST has received a lot of flak from the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers and the African Centre for Energy Policy over the decision.
BOST is insisting that the product has been confined. The Media Relations Manager at BOST Nana Akua Adubea told Starr News the contaminated fuel is not on the open market.
However, Starr News sources at the NPA say the regulator has obtained samples of the suspected contaminated fuel from tank farms belonging to BOST on the Accra Plains.
Officials of the Authority on Tuesday also extracted samples from eight tankers found on the premises of Zup Oil-the depot where the oil is to be discharged. Additionally samples have been taken from a storage tank at Zup for testing to establish whether the contaminated product is intact.
