{"id":369731,"date":"2026-04-08T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369731\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:43:16","slug":"fuel-stocks-rise-in-latest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369731\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel stocks rise in latest update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JRMCO5_Gas_3_1_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Graphic of empty gas tank with New Zealand currency in the background\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Quin Tauetau\n<\/p>\n<p>Fuel stocks have again risen in the latest update from the government.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment&#8217;s latest fuel stocks update shows 62.6 days of petrol, 51.7 days of diesel, and 53.5 days of jet fuel as of midday Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>All are up on the last update, though petrol and diesel reserves have only increased by less than half a day&#8217;s normal consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Jet fuel is up by more than three days&#8217; consumption.<\/p>\n<p>These figures include another two ships in New Zealand&#8217;s Exclusive Economic Zone and a further twelve ships within three weeks of arrival.<\/p>\n<p>On-land supplies amount to about 28 days, 24 days and 28 days of petrol, diesel and jet fuel respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ \/ Quin Tauetau Fuel stocks have again risen in the latest update from the government. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-369731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}