GuyOil reimburses Essequibo drivers for tainted fuel sales

Several customers lined up at the Adventure office of the Guyana Oil Company on the Essequibo Coast yesterday morning to receive payments for damage to their vehicles after they used tainted fuel sold by the company.

Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) yesterday paid out reimbursements related to several dozen Essequibo Coast residents at its Adventure offices after it recently sold them tainted fuel.

The oil company made a decision to repay all affected customers along the Essequibo Coast late last week and scores of persons turned up at the fuel depot at Adventure to collect their monies. Drivers in the area told this newspaper yesterday that the oil company made an across the board payout of $10,000 to each of its customers and one driver stated that the sum covered the repairs which the drivers were faced with making to their vehicles.

He said that a number of customers, who purchase fuel from the 10 GuyOil–affiliated fuel stations along the