More than 10 million litres of substandard AI-92 gasoline were found during inspections of filling stations in Uzbekistan in January-October, officials of the Uzenergoinspection fuel and energy inspectorate said on Nov. 4.
About 3,000 filling stations were inspected nationwide, and 330 of them, roughly 11%, were found to be selling petroleum products that failed quality requirements, said Dilshod Karimov, head of the inspectorate’s oil and gas control department. Of those 330 violations, 240 involved motor gasoline.
The largest volumes of substandard fuel were found in Andijan and Fergana provinces, with similar violations in Navoi, Namangan and Samarkand provinces. The violations involved AI-92 and AI-95 gasoline, but officials did not say which fuel parameters failed to meet standards.
Stations whose fuel fails laboratory tests are temporarily suspended and may resume sales only after a repeat test and a certificate of conformity.
“Our main goal is not to confiscate petroleum products but to prevent their sale to consumers in substandard condition,” Karimov said. He said the inspectorate has prevented the sale of about 7,800 tonnes of substandard petroleum products since the start of the year.
The 10 million litres equal about 0.6% of the 1.2 million tonnes of motor gasoline produced in 2025, the National Statistics Committee siad, or just over two days of average daily output.
In August, inspectors took more than 170 fuel samples at 129 stations and other businesses and found 174,000 litres of substandard products at 21 stations. In October, a station operated by M.O.X. in Andijan province was fined 23.6 million soums, or 50% of the value of the fuel it sold, after testing showed the fuel did not meet state standards.
