Lanka Indian Oil Company (LIOC) had today (18)refused to supply Diesel for the Power plants belongs to Ceylon Electricity Board due to not having extra amount of oil reserves for that purpose according to Ministry of Electricity .
Ministry had held talks with the officials of LIOC today (18)regarding supplying of diesel for Power plants to generate electricity required by the country and during the discussion LIOC had reveled this .LIOC only have a stock of Diesel to supply their oil filling stations in the country the Company officials had informed the Ministry ,
Ceylon Petroleum Corporation had stopped supplying Diesel to Power plants last week ,However agreed to supply 1500 metric tomes of Diesel daily during last weekend ,However for today Petroleum Corporation had supplied only 900 metric tones of diesel to the Electricity Board which is not sufficient to generate power it has been reported .
The Electricity Board workers unions had today warned that the supplying of electricity to the country will stop suddenly tomorrow if the fuel crisis continues further
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