{"id":433225,"date":"2026-05-18T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433225\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:49:12","slug":"petrol-and-jet-fuel-dip-diesel-up-in-latest-fuel-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433225\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol and jet fuel dip, diesel up in latest fuel update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Onboard the eight ships expected to arrive within three weeks, there was 18.5 days\u2019 worth of petrol, 16.8 days of diesel and 13 days of jet fuel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\"> The ministry said the fuel levels reflected \u201cnormal shipping patterns\u201d and were consistent with expectations even without the impact of the United States\/Israel war with Iran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIn normal supply cycles, large shipments arrive and stocks are steadily used before the next vessels are loaded. This results in a pattern of large increases followed by a period of decline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOverall fuel stocks remain well above minimum requirements and within normal ranges, with regular shipments continuing to arrive as expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">It said fuel importers had expressed confidence fuel orders would be fulfilled to late June with planned orders extending into early August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Adam Pearse is the Deputy Political Editor and part of the NZ Herald\u2019s Press Gallery team based at Parliament in Wellington. He has worked for NZME since 2018, reporting for the Northern Advocate in Whang\u0101rei and the Herald in Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Onboard the eight ships expected to arrive within three weeks, there was 18.5 days\u2019 worth of petrol, 16.8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,54239,30276,97110,2678,7237,305,78,28372,700,5983,19476,111,43,139,69,22126,643,810,1803,2963],"class_list":["post-433225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-diesel","tag-dip","tag-dipped","tag-fuel","tag-governments","tag-have","tag-in","tag-jet","tag-latest","tag-levels","tag-lifted","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-petrol","tag-stocks","tag-up","tag-update","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433225","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=433225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}