Pertalite Sales Increases: Pertamina

Jakarta (Antara Bali) - The sales of new fuel type of Pertalite increase significantly over the past two days, Pertamina said here on Sunday.

Corporate Comunications Vice President Wiando Pusponegoro said  state-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina started to launch as trial sales test of its new Pertalite fuel at 101 SBPUs in three cities of Jakarta and Bandung (68 SBPUs) and Surabaya (33 SBPUs) on Friday, July 24, 2015.

The sales of Pertalite on Saturday, July 25, in 66 SPBUs in West Java, reached 186,610 liters or about 2,827 liters per refilling station, even in some of the SBPU the sales reached over 5,000 liters per day.

The volumes of Pertalite sales at 30 refilling stations (SPBU) in East Java's Surabaya and its surrounding on Saturday reached 82,860 liters, or about 2,732 litters per SPBU.

This means that showed an increase of 69.2 percent if compared with the sales on the first day on Friday (July 24, 2015).

"with these conditions, we are convinced the sale test of Pertalite will be successful," Wianda Pusponegoro, the corporate vice president of Pertamina said here on Sunday.

Wiando Pusponegoro said that consumers enthusiastically welcome the launch of the new type of Pertamina's fuel, or Pertalite RON 90.

She said that the sales of Pertalite at 11 refilling stations in Sidoarjo and Mojokerto of East Java on Saturday increased by 269 percent from the sales in the first recorded at 9,859 liters to 26,523 liters on Saturday.

"In one SPBU alone, the sales of Pertalite on Saturday reached 4,781 liters. We are happy and should be thankful because the facts show if the consumers are giving appreciations to our new products," Pusponegoro said.

Consumers in West Java also showed the same enthusiasm as indicated in the increase in the sales of Pertalite which about 88.9 0percent on Saturday if compared with the sales on the first day of Friday, July 24, 2015. (WDY)