Retail outlets of 14 of the country's oil marketing companies have been found cheating the public. They have been using malfunctioning delivery pumps resulting in under delivery of fuel to customers. A report by a team of officials of the Ghana Standards Board (GSB) and National Petroleum Authority (NPA) who conducted an inspection of a number of filling stations in Accra, however, did not indicate the extent of fraud perpetrated. The report, however, recommended that the National Oil Loss Control Committee should be reconstituted to help address deficiencies in the system. It also stressed the effective use of one litre measuring can to help solve unnoticed over or under delivery problems being encountered. A press release by the NPA Friday on the team's report said the guilty oil companies had been slapped with various penalties and had been tasked to calibrate the pumps before being allowed to operate them. The 14 oil companies include Shell, Goil, Glory Oil, Star Oil, Total, Allied Oil and AP Oil. The rest are EV Oil, Excel, Nasona, Sky Petroleum, Engen, Q8 and Fraga Oil. The inspection, conducted in March this year, took the team to 186 filling stations and saw 391 verifying pumps. Forty-nine pumps were found to be "under-delivery" while nine were 'over delivery". There are almost 4,000 filling stations operating in the country. Mr Stephen Larbi, Public Relations Officer of the NPA, told the Times that the exercise would continue to expose all the dubious filling stations.