Sale of diesel at an NP gas sta­tion in Diego Mar­tin has been sus­pend­ed af­ter it was dis­cov­ered that traces of su­per gaso­line were found in its diesel sup­ply.

A pe­cu­liar scene of cus­tomers emp­ty­ing their fu­el tanks at the gas sta­tion near Star­lite plaza went vi­ral on so­cial me­dia.

The in­ci­dent, which hap­pened on Wednes­day, re­port­ed­ly alarmed pa­trons who were present at the sta­tion.

The gas sta­tion's man­ag­er Eli Za­k­our said the in­ci­dent was ex­ac­er­bat­ed by the video and one pa­tron who cre­at­ed a ruckus and he and his staff worked to en­sure no one's car was dam­aged due to the is­sue.

In a re­lease, NP said it is aware of fu­el con­t­a­m­i­na­tion that oc­curred at the NP Diego Mar­tin Ser­vice Sta­tion on 2019 Wednes­day, Ju­ly 10 at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1 pm when su­per fu­el was in­ad­ver­tent­ly dis­charged in­to the diesel fu­el stor­age tank.

The re­lease added, "As an im­me­di­ate mea­sure, the sale of diesel fu­el at this sta­tion was sus­pend­ed and main­te­nance tech­ni­cians were de­ployed to the site to re­move the prod­uct from the tank and take re­me­di­al ac­tion to flush the en­tire sys­tem."

Za­k­our and NP both con­firmed the pre­mi­um fu­el and su­per fu­el at this ser­vice sta­tion were un­af­fect­ed and the sale of these prod­ucts con­tin­ued with­out is­sue.

A new sup­ply of prod­uct (diesel) was de­liv­ered to the Diego Mar­tin Ser­vice Sta­tion, but sale of the fu­el re­mains sus­pend­ed un­til the cause of the leak is de­ter­mined.

In the state­ment, NP said it con­tin­ues to ad­vo­cate for strict com­pli­ance with stan­dard pro­ce­dures for the re­ceipt of fu­el at ser­vice sta­tions and con­tin­ues to em­pha­sise to all its site op­er­a­tors/ deal­ers the crit­i­cal im­por­tance of fol­low­ing the es­tab­lished pro­ce­dure so that the mo­tor­ing pub­lic con­tin­ues to re­ceive good fu­el qual­i­ty.

How­ev­er, Za­k­our said his staff fol­lowed all reg­u­la­tion with re­gard to the col­lec­tion and stor­age of fu­el.