The bulletin, posted by the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources at 13:31 Ulaanbaatar time, records a regular sitting of the headquarters set up by the prime minister's directive and chaired by the ministry's state secretary, B. Dashpurev. Its one import figure: "in the first week of September a total of 19,853 tonnes of AI-92 petrol entered through Mongolia's border". The only diesel line is an instruction, with no count attached.
The count is of arrivals in one week. 19,853 tonnes in seven days is 2,836 tonnes a day; the same pace held for 30 days delivers about 85,000 tonnes, a third above the roughly 65,000 tonnes of September petrol demand in the headquarters' end-of-August bulletins. The headquarters published no second-week figure, and the August book showed how a month closes short: 74,780 tonnes ordered, 68,502 received, 8.4% below the order.
The queue figures come with names. The average number of vehicles waiting at a rural station is 54; Bayan-Ulgii stands at 105, Dornogovi and Umnugovi at 90, Dornod and Zavkhan at 85. On 31 August the same headquarters had counted queues falling from 70 to 75 vehicles to 58, with 200 of 365 rural stations at normal supply.
The instructions went to the relevant organisations and officials: raise supply to the five aimags, hold stable distribution elsewhere, and "intensify the supply of petrol and diesel fuel to the crop-farming regions and increase their reserves", the harvest line of the season.
The count is of arrivals in one week.
The Khural is rewriting the 2026 budget this week, and the finance minister named strategic reserves against prices as one of its two measures on Monday. The second reading of the amendments is due on 14 September.