It was business as usual on Wednesday for most petrol bunks in the city and the suburbs, with oil marketing companies pumping in substantial quantities of petrol and diesel in an attempt to tide over the nearly three-day-old fuel crisis.

Barring some retail outlets where queues of vehicles were seen in the morning and for sometime in the evening, there was no rush for fuel as reported since Sunday evening.

Senior officials of the oil industry told a press meet on Wednesday evening that normality was being restored and there is no need for the customers to panic. “We have sufficient stock … loaded [in tankers], 7,500 KL of diesel as against the average daily offtake of 4,800 KL and 3,300 KL of petrol against the requirement of 2,085 KL,” said V.K. Jayachandran, State-level Coordinator of oil industry (Tamil Nadu and Puducherry) and Executive Director of IOC (TN State office).