Enemed has agreed to make the new “super unleaded” type of petrol available to some 60 fuel stations as it responded quickly to claims of discrimination.

The company scrapped its plans to introduce the new fuel as a pilot project and will distribute its limited stock among all those fuel stations that request to sell it.

Enemed executive chairman Kevin Chircop said when contacted that the company never intended to discriminate against anyone and had planned to introduce the new fuel to the market in a controlled fashion so as to be able to quantify the demand.

He was reacting to a story broken by the Times of Malta yesterday that petrol station owners were planning legal action claiming Enemed had abused its
monopoly position when it chose only 10 of them to sell a new super
unleaded type of petrol.

“The 10 stations were chosen as part of a pilot project to get the best possible market research results so Enemed could then see how much it needed to purchase to keep the supply going,” he said. The 10 stations were chosen on
the basis of two criteria: full compliance with the 2020 upgrade plan and the five top sellers.