The Moroccan Samir Oil Refinery Association slammed, during its executive office’s meeting on Monday, the government’s backtracking on storing oil products at the Samir oil refinery to face the global market’s shocks.
It also criticized resorting, again, to the court’s exclusive order in favor of a private fuel distributor without a transparent call to tender.
The body rejected such attempts meant to progressively and systematically dismantle the assets of Samir.
The Association held the government responsible for the refinery’s failure to resume normal production. It also blasted over some fuel distributors who accumulated profits amounting to 50 billion dirhams.
The body urged the competition council to stop its inertia and take action on the complaint filed in 2016 by the Democratic Confederation of Labor (CDT) concerning fuel price fixing by distributors.
True competition should lead to a drop in fuel prices for the benefit of the consumer, it said.
Samir’s dysfunctions made Morocco reliant on oil product imports in a very unnstable global context.