{"id":432722,"date":"2026-05-18T02:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/432722\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:05:09","slug":"fuel-stocks-steady-after-jump-in-supply-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/432722\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel stocks steady after jump in supply last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JR7QUQ_fuel01c_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Composite of fuel pump and money.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Unsplash\n<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s fuel stocks are relatively steady following a significant jump in supply last week.<\/p>\n<p>The latest government data to midnight Wednesday show petrol very slightly up, while diesel and jet fuel have dropped slightly.<\/p>\n<p>There are 56.2 days of petrol, 46.3 days of diesel, and 47.7 days of jet fuel either in the country or on the way.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s compared to the previous update: 59 days of petrol, 45.2 of diesel and 50.2 of jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The government said fuel stocks remain well above minimum requirements, and within normal ranges.<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s increase was due to several large shipments recently embarking for New Zealand, these arrive and stocks are readily used before the next vessells are loaded, which results in a pattern of large increases followed by a period of decline.<\/p>\n<p>Regular shipments are continuing to arrive as expected, and fuel importers have good confidence through confirmed orders to late June.<\/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 \/ Unsplash The country&#8217;s fuel stocks are relatively steady following a significant jump in supply last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362543,"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":["post-432722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432722","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=432722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}