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The Australian Institute of Petroleum today called on the Australian Automobile Association to support measures to combat the current fuel substitution racket. AIP Executive Director, Mr Jim Starkey, said the Australian Automobile Association's opposition to excise uniformity on petroleum…

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The oil industry today urged Federal and State Governments to introduce measures to end once and for all fuel substitution practices. The call follows exposure of the latest racket, which involves unscrupulous operators blending the solvent toluene into petrol, so as to evade payment of…

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"Despite constant accusations of oil company price manipulation, the facts show that petrol prices fell in every town and city measured by the independent Informed Sources petrol price monitoring service," the Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Petroleum, Mr Bryan Nye, said today…

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OIL INDUSTRY ACTION AGENDA RELEASED The Federal Government and the oil industry today released the Downstream Petroleum Products Action Agenda. AIP Chairman, Peter Duncan, said that the refining industry had come under severe challenge in recent years, the result of severe competition from…

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The oil industry has welcomed the ACCC’s report of its investigation of petrol price movements from January to August 1999. The ACCC’s investigation has confirmed that increases in petrol prices have been lower than would be justified by increases in world oil prices. The key findings of the…

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The oil industry is extremely disappointed that the Government has found it necessary to withdraw the petroleum industry reform package. This withdrawal is the result of the failure by the Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) to accept a key element of the Government’s reform package. By…

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The oil industry today urged the Opposition and the Democrats to allow the passage of the Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill, containing the Government’s reform package for the petroleum products industry. Jim Starkey, Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Petroleum said ‘AIP…

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The Australian Institute of Petroleum is disappointed that the Opposition and the Australian Democrats are not yet prepared to support much needed reform of the framework of regulation governing petroleum retail marketing. The lack of agreement in the report of the Senate Rural and Regional…
Environmental performance of the Australian oil industry

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AIP member companies, individually, and collectively through the Institute, share the general community concern for conservation of the environment and actively seek to protect air, water and soil from contamination through their operations and through communication with Governments and local…