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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday (April 17) a fire at the larger of the country's two oil refineries would not trigger any fuel restrictions, as the government ramps up efforts to secure fuel supplies due to the war on Iran.

The blaze at Viva Energy's refinery in Geelong, an hour's drive from Melbourne, comes at a bad time for Australia, which imports 80% of its fuel needs and has been racing to lock in additional supply from regional allies.

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00:02Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday,
00:05a fire at Australia's largest oil refinery will not lead to fuel restrictions,
00:10even as the government strengthens efforts to secure supply amid the war on Iran.
00:15The blaze at Viva Energy's Geelong refinery near Melbourne comes at a sensitive time,
00:20with Australia importing most of its fuel and seeking additional supply from regional partners.
00:25The advice that we've received today is that 80% of diesel production is continuing.
00:3480% of aviation fuel is continuing ongoing.
00:39It's been slowed down just slightly because of the circumstances which are there,
00:45but 60% of petrol production is proceeding today as well.
00:51The refinery supplies more than half the fuel used in Victoria and around a tenth of Australia's total demand.
00:58The fire broke out on Wednesday night and was brought under control after about 12 hours.
01:04Albanese returned early from Malaysia after meeting Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim
01:09and securing a fuel supply agreement with Petronas.
01:21Fe�, the fire break, the fire at Kira Sassi Anwar Ibrahim
01:22and Mori 무acryabins are always put on the ground under control of the fuel.
01:22and raising a fuel-credieter is being repeated on the fuel-credieter.
01:23The fire won't lead to the fuel-credieter is being repeated on the fuel-credieter.
01:23That is, that has been measured at a lot of the fire-credieter and the fire-credieter.
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