Independent fuel reserve & pricing transparency for Australia.
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Australia holds limited onshore fuel reserves, and official stock data is published with a lag. AussieOilWatch tracks government reserve anchors alongside live station prices from every state to give drivers, researchers, and policymakers a clearer picture of national fuel security in near-real time.
Lowest reserve
29days of Jet Fuel
+22% above MSO
Left: critical reserve countdown. Right: weekly DCCEEW stock data by fuel type.
Sorted by urgency — days and surplus % direct from DCCEEW
Jet Fuel
29d
+22% above MSO
Diesel
35d
+50% above MSO
Petrol
42d
+110% above MSO
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Australia imports over 90% of its refined fuel. With only two domestic refineries remaining — Ampol’s Lytton facility in Brisbane and Viva Energy’s Geelong refinery in Victoria — the country is heavily dependent on imported petrol, diesel, and jet fuel shipped primarily from refineries in Singapore, South Korea, and Japan.
Unlike countries with large strategic petroleum reserves, Australia’s domestic stockholdings are measured in weeks rather than months. The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) publishes weekly Minimum Stockholding Obligation (MSO) figures that report how many days of onshore stock the country holds for each fuel type. These figures also show the surplus percentage — how far above the mandatory minimum the current holdings sit.
AussieOilWatch displays the official DCCEEW stock-day figures and surplus percentages directly from the government’s Power BI report, without applying any burn-rate modelling or extrapolation. The countdown timer subtracts elapsed time since the last publication to give an approximate remaining figure, but it is an illustrative estimate — not a live tank sensor feed. When new weekly data is published, the timer resets to the fresh figure. Reserve data is polled from DCCEEW every 60 minutes; the dashboard re-renders every 5 minutes. When live data is unavailable, the most recently fetched snapshot is served as a fallback.
Station-level fuel prices come from official state and territory government APIs across NSW/ACT (FuelCheck), QLD, SA, WA (FuelWatch), VIC, NT, and TAS. Each API is polled every 30 minutes. Prices are filtered through a sanity band of 60–800 c/L to remove sentinel values and obvious outliers from upstream data.
For a deeper understanding of how fuel reserves work, what determines petrol prices, and how this dashboard aggregates data, explore our educational guides:
This dashboard is a public-interest transparency tool built by Rath Engineering Development. Reserve figures are sourced from official government data, not live tank gauges. Fuel prices are sourced from official state government APIs. Nothing on this site constitutes financial advice. See our terms of use and privacy policy for full details.
