JONG CADION
Chief of reporters
PAGADIAN CITY--The supply of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), particularly Gasul, is now all right after the unpredictable damage and repair of the storage facility in Jimenez, Misamis Occidental last February.
This assurance came from Councilor Jesus “Jun” Bajamunde after Mindanao Monitor asked him whether the short supply of LPG in the city was a result of hoarding or not.
Bajamunde owns Pagadian Gas, which obtains filled LPG at the Petron Gasul Bailing Station in the neighboring Misamis Occidental.
“Our supply now is back to normal following the repair of our storage facilities in Jimenez,” Bajamunde explained.
It was learned that the gasul supply allocation in Pagadian and the rest of the province was reduced to half after the malfunction of spiral tank storage in Jimenez.
Some 8,000 cylinders of gasul cylinder are sold by Pagadian Gas weekly. These composed of both the 11-kilogram and the commercial 50 kilogram, Bajamunde added.
A Weekly Price Monitoring Report forwarded by DTI-Zambosur dated March 6 listed a decrease in LPG products at an average of P20 per 11-kg tank.
The DTI paper listed the price of Gasul, Shellane and Caltex LPG at P580 while Pryce Gas and Petronas Gas are sold P10 cheaper.