Gasoline's Demand Is Predicted To Increase 5 Percent During The 2025 Christmas And New Year Holidays

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JAKARTA - PT Pertamina (Persero) predicts that gasoline or gasoline demand will increase by 5 percent during the Christmas and New Year 2025 holidays.

Meanwhile, gasoil (solar) will decrease by 3.3 percent.

"Why is this? Because there may be restrictions on the transportation of public goods at Christmas and New Year," said Pertamina President Director Simon Aloysius Mantiri at the PLN and Pertamina Preparedness Press Conference in Nat and New Year, Monday, December 9.

He continued, demand for LPG commodities is expected to increase by 2.7 percent compared to the normal period.

As for the details, namely, 3 kilograms of LPG (kg) of 2 percent and Bright Gas of 6 percent.

"We estimate that there will be an increase of around 2.7 percent compared to normal because household activities increase during the Christmas and New Year holidays," added Simon.

Simon ensured that all fuel and LPG purchases and distribution activities would be monitored in real-time through the Pertamina Digital Hub, previously known as the Pertamina Integrated Enterprise Data and Command Center (PIEDCC).

The system will be a source of information on energy distribution from upstream, refineries, shipping, fuel terminals to gas stations.

"To ensure that all supply chain processes run well," he added.

To ensure smooth distribution, Pertamina also formed a Nataru task force (Satgas) which will start on December 16, 2024 to January 9, 2025.

This task force, he said, would ensure the smooth distribution of fuel and LPG. In addition, the Task Force was formed in anticipation of the prediction of the peak of Christmas flow on December 24, 2024 and the return flow of Christmas on December 28, 2024. Then anticipate the flow of the New Year holiday on December 31, 2024 and backflow on January 4, 2025.

Ensure Elpiji Stock And Fuel Are Safe

On the same occasion, Simon also ensured that the fuel & LPG stock reserves were at a safe level such as Solar in the range of 15 to 17 days, Pertalite 17 to 18 days, LPG 13 to 14 days.

Pertamina also alerted 7,786 gas stations; 6,802 Pertashop; 414 fishermen's general refueling stations (SPBUN); 55 bunker charging stations (SPBB); 6,478 LPG agents (5,589 PSO & 889 NPSO), 754 SPBE (627 PSO & 111 NPSO); and 156 kerosene agents.