BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (By Ana Sanches, Editores Latin Petroleum, 9.Nov.2026, Words: 236) — Trafigura distanced itself from the case of the so-called “junk gasoline,” which refers to the poor-quality fuel that circulated in Bolivia earlier this year and led to a political and legal crisis, La Razón reported.
“The junk gasoline was not our company’s responsibility,” the clarification was made at a meeting led by Edmundo Vidal, Trafigura’s director for Latin America and with Bolivian journalists in Montevideo, which La Razón attended, the daily reported on 9 Nov. 2026.
The executive explained the company has not had a gasoline sales contract with Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) since 2022 and that its current agreements with the state-owned company only cover diesel.
According to Vidal, since that year the company has participated in between 8-10 tenders to supply gasoline to the land-locked South American country, without winning any.
Since Trafigura has not supplied this fuel in the last 4 years, the firm considers the accusations linking it to the contaminated gasoline to be false.
According to company data, Trafigura covers about 80% of the diesel distributed in Bolivia, with shipments of between 25 and 30 million liters per month, according to the daily.
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