Spain
Weekly prices
Week 3, 2009

Fuel prices in Spain: week 3 of 2009

Name: Fuel prices in Spain, week 3 of 2009 (12 Jan – 18 Jan 2009)
Creator: Litrigo

12 Jan – 18 Jan 2009

Diesel hardly changed over the week and ended at 0.880 €. Petrol 95 rose by 1.3 cents over the week, to 0.878 €. A year earlier diesel cost 1.053 €: it is now 17.3 cents cheaper.

Diesel rose most in Melilla (+2.2 cents). Diesel fell most in Álava (−0.5 cents). Among the large chains, Alcampo had the cheapest diesel at 0.858 €.

Median prices across Spain

Fuel	Mon 12 Jan	Mon 19 Jan	Change	Week average
Diesel	0.87⁹	0.88⁰	no change	0.88⁰
Petrol 95	0.86⁵	0.87⁸	1.3 ¢	0.87⁰
Petrol 98	0.97⁹	0.99⁰	1.1 ¢	0.98³

The median of all stations at 00:00 Madrid time; the week runs from Monday to Monday (the prices after Sunday).

Diesel and petrol 95 in Spain, last 12 weeks

DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

Province	Mon 19 Jan	Change
Rose most
Melilla	0.67¹	2.2 ¢
Las Palmas	0.61¹	2.2 ¢
Ceuta	0.63²	2.0 ¢
Cádiz	0.87⁵	0.8 ¢
Navarra	0.87⁴	0.6 ¢
Fell most
Álava	0.87⁴	0.5 ¢
Bizkaia	0.87⁴	0.5 ¢
Cantabria	0.87⁴	0.5 ¢
A Coruña	0.88⁸	0.5 ¢
Cáceres	0.87⁵	0.5 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

Province	Mon 19 Jan	Change
Rose most
Las Palmas	0.63⁸	2.2 ¢
Illes Balears	0.88¹	1.9 ¢
Melilla	0.61³	1.7 ¢
Ceuta	0.60⁷	1.6 ¢
Tarragona	0.90²	1.5 ¢

The cheapest large chains

Chain	Stations	Diesel	Petrol 95
Disa^*	114	0.61² 26.8 ¢	0.64³
Alcampo	37	0.85⁸ 2.2 ¢	0.85³
Avia	83	0.87⁴ 0.6 ¢	0.87⁴
Agla	51	0.87⁵ 0.5 ¢	0.86⁹
Campsa	82	0.87⁵ 0.5 ¢	0.87⁵
Petronor	168	0.87⁵ 0.5 ¢	0.87⁴
BP	517	0.87⁹ median	0.88¹
Carrefour	94	0.87⁹ median	0.87⁵
Shell	275	0.87⁹ median	0.87¹
Repsol	2,258	0.88⁰ median	0.88²

* Most of its stations are on the Canary Islands, in Ceuta or Melilla, where fuel taxes are lower.

Chains with at least 30 stations selling diesel; median prices at the end of the week, the difference is to the Spanish median.

Oil and the euro that week

Brent, $ per barrel$ 43.4216.01.2009 · a week earlier: $ 42.34

Brent, € per litre0.206 €16.01.2009 · a week earlier: 0.195 €

EUR/USD1.327016.01.2009 · a week earlier: 1.3684

Spain in the EU, diesel9 / 2719.01.2009 · Spain 0.882 €, EU average 0.983 € (1 = cheapest)

Brent and the euro: the last value before each Monday. Pump prices follow crude with a lag of several weeks.

Brent oil price in euros per litre → · Fuel prices in Spain and the EU →

Sources: Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition (MITECO), open data; U.S. EIA (Brent); European Central Bank (euro rate); European Commission, Weekly Oil Bulletin (CC BY 4.0). Medians and changes calculated by Litrigo.