Udaya Gammanpila, Minister of Energy says that it will take another two weeks to supply fuel to the Ceylon Electricity Board if the Sapugaskanda oil refinery is not able to resume operations on January 27.
He says that although orders have already been placed to import the required stocks of fuel oil as requested by the CEB, the stocks are due to arrive in the country on February 09.
Minister Udaya Gammanpila has stated this giving a statement to the Neth FM radio channel.