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Submission on EFTPOS Access Regime

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Through submissions to review processes, AIP aims to inform the community about the downstream petroleum industry, and its significance to the national economy, by making available comprehensive factual information and data about the industry and its performance over time. AIP material also…

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The Australian Institute of Petroleum today advised that rising demand and tight supplies in the international petroleum markets was continuing to put upward pressure on pump prices in Australia. "There are a number of coincidental international factors at work in the market that continue to put…

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The Australian Institute of Petroleum today advised that changes in the international petroleum markets are putting upward pressure on pump prices. "Petrol prices in Australia are set on the price of available product in Singapore, which is a benchmark for prices in the Asian region. The reason…

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The Australian Institute of Petroleum today released its annual survey of oil industry profitability that confirmed the refiner-marketer oil companies made an underlying loss making and selling petroleum products in 2000. The 2000 Ernst & Young Downstream Oil Industry Financial Survey that…

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The Australian Institute of Petroleum today suggested a touch of reality was required in the current debate on petrol prices. "The attached table published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) clearly shows that the Australian petroleum industry is intensely competitive and is recognised as…

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Australian motorists benefited from falling petrol prices across the country during March, according to the latest independent Informed Sources petrol price report. The Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Petroleum, Mr Bryan Nye, said the Informed Sources report for March showed…

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TIME TO PUT REALITY BACK INTO PETROL PRICES DEBATE The Australian Institute of Petroleum has today exposed a number of myths about petrol pricing which have taken hold in recent months. "Petrol prices are set by the normal pressures of supply and demand, with Australians enjoying amongst the…

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Australia's oil industry today rejected Federal Government claims that cost reductions as a result of tax reform would see industry savings of 1.5 cpl on petrol and diesel. The Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Petroleum, Mr Ewen Macpherson, said the Government's claimed cost…

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The Australian Institute of Petroleum has welcomed the Federal Government's decision to crack down on illicit fuel blending activities, but has urged wider reform to stop the problem re-occurring in the future. "Today's announcement by the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Rod Kemp, that the…

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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…