
The Government's plan to build and operate its own fuel reserves for 90 to 100 days faces several logistical and financial challenges.
Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, Enea Karakaçi, announced on Tuesday in a meeting with oil wholesalers that the new draft law on fuel reserves, which is expected to be approved within 3 weeks by the government, will mean that the reserves will no longer be physically held by private operators, but by a state agency.
But, it remains to be seen in the draft law that the government is discussing how the financial cost required to raise these reserves will be resolved.
Albania consumed about 740 thousand tons of fuel throughout 2025. This means that to guarantee reserves for 90 to 100 days, at least 180 thousand tons were needed.
The cost of purchasing this quantity on the market at pre-war prices in Iran alone is just over 100 million euros, while another 50 million euros can be added to this figure for construction or leasing of storage facilities, as well as the operational costs of the new state-owned operator that will manage these reserves.