New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said India's fuel retail network had remained fully resilient through recent global disruptions, addressing controversy around the E20 ethanol-blended petrol at the CII International Energy Conference & Exhibition.

Responding to concerns raised after an industry body wrote on July 28, Puri said intensive testing had actually begun two weeks earlier. Oil marketing companies collected around 2,000 samples daily from petrol stations nationwide using dedicated testing teams, he said. Out of India's 107,000 retail outlets serving six to seven crore customers a day only four contamination cases were found. He suggested some parties were presenting th...