Fuel Price

[skippydiesel]

"Bottom line, yes Australia does import ‘some’ Avgas, but the volumes are small, probably because the consumption is small."

 

Hmmm! "....volumes are small..."

 

Please elaborate;

 

By what measure? If you are comparing with the USA, yes their pilot populating is huge compared with ours.

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Are you saying that Au is almost self-sufficient in AvGas, so has no need of significant imports of the fuel?

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[Reynard]

An earlier poster indicated he had been told that 100% of Avgas consumed in Oz, was produced locally. My post was to provide data that Oz does import ‘some’ Avgas. 
 

in relative terms to mogas and diesel that are both produced locally and imported, the Australian consumption of Avgas is very small. I have no data to compare Avgas consumption with other countries. Additionally, it should be obvious the consumption of Avtur vastly outweighs that of Avgas in Australia.

[Love to fly]

27 minutes ago, Reynard said:

The import stats in the attached file seem very ‘lumpy’, and don’t really provide much insight.  Unless the Geelong refinery alkylation unit was down for an extended period in 2024 ?? - unlikely.

Bottom line, yes Australia does import ‘some’ Avgas, but the volumes are small, probably because the consumption is small.

 

Australian Petroleum Statistics - Data Extract January 2026.xlsx 2.61 MB · 1 download

Thanks. So why the increase in price, and reduced availability? 

[Reynard]

Excellent question!  You would think that Avgas demand would not have significantly changed over the past month, so something doesn’t stack up.

[facthunter]

Priorities?  Nev

[Reynard]

Probably - available fuel tankers (and DG drivers) all tied up trying to keep up with petrol and diesel demand, while Avgas was further down the list.

[T510]

The cost to get the avgas to the airports would have gone up considerably, the trucks delivering it still need Diesel to get there.