By Lane Afable, News Editor
The Department of Energy (DOE) on Monday said the country still has sufficient fuel supply.
In an online briefing, Energy Secretary Sharon Garin said that as of April 24, the country has an average of 54 days’ worth of fuel supply.
DOE data showed that gasoline supply remained adequate for 53.01 days; diesel, 54.61 days; kerosene, 168.74 days; jet fuel, 70.83 days; fuel oil, 67.55 days; and liquified petroleum gas (LPG), 38.44 days.
“These are good numbers. LPG is slowly increasing, especially since we have ordered already a consolidated order with some of our oil companies from a supplier in the U.S. So we have an order coming (in) May,” Garin said.
In a separate statement, the DOE said all four diesel shipments secured under the government’s Emergency Energy Security Program have arrived, delivering a total of 178.33 million liters of diesel to help strengthen the country’s buffer amid continued volatility in the global oil market and ongoing developments in the Middle East.
The DOE said the shipments marked a concrete result of the government’s fuel security efforts under Executive Order No. 110, issued by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., which directed urgent and targeted measures to safeguard domestic energy supply amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty.
The first shipment, consisting of 142,531.23 barrels or 22.66 million liters of diesel from Japan, arrived in Batangas on 26 March 2026.
The second shipment, consisting of 329,650 barrels or 52.41 million liters, arrived in Subic.
This was followed by the third shipment, consisting of 319,576 barrels or 50.8 million liters, also delivered to Subic, and the fourth shipment, consisting of 329,918 barrels or 52.4 million liters, which arrived in Davao City.
“The arrival of all four diesel shipments shows that the government is acting with urgency to protect the country’s fuel supply. As the Middle East conflict continues, our priority is to ensure that the Philippines remains prepared, adequately supplied, and able to respond swiftly to developments that may affect fuel availability and market stability,” Garin said.
Oil price reduction
During the briefing, Garin said diesel and kerosene prices are scheduled for rollback this week.
Diesel will decline by PHP12.94 per liter, while kerosene will also go down by PHP15.71 per liter.
Gasoline, however, will increase by 53 centavos per liter.
Garin said oil companies are mandated to comply with the price adjustments.
No yellow alerts
Meanwhile, DOE Undersecretary Rowena Guevara said that at present, the DOE is not seeing a yellow alert in all power grids for May this year.
“For me, wala pa kaming nakikita na possible yellow alerts pero lagi naming sinasabi sa publiko na usually mga yellow alerts natin in the past nangyayari kasi biglang may isang plantang bumagsak or forced outage, hindi po natin mapredict yung mga yan (For me, we are not seeing any possible yellow alerts yet, but we always tell the public that usually our yellow alerts in the past happen because a plant suddenly fails or there is a forced outage, so we can’t predict those),” she said.
“But if we are just to base it on the dependable capacity and the forecasted demand, supposedly there are no yellow alerts.”
