Running dry: A customer using the pump at a BP petrol station in Lincolnshire. Intense demand is piling pressure on the fuel supply chain in the UK. ― AFP
LONDON: BP Plc, the second-largest fuel retailer in the United Kingdom, said it has run out of the main grades at almost a third of its stations in the country following days of panic buying.
“With the intense demand seen over the past two days, we estimate that around 30% of sites in this network do not currently have either of the main grades of fuel,” BP said in a statement. The London-based company said most of its 1,200 sites in the UK remain supplied and open.
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