Spain
Weekly prices
Week 9, 2009

Fuel prices in Spain: week 9 of 2009

Name: Fuel prices in Spain, week 9 of 2009 (23 Feb – 1 Mar 2009)
Creator: Litrigo

23 Feb – 1 Mar 2009

Diesel hardly changed over the week and ended at 0.841 €. Petrol 95 fell by 0.8 cents over the week, to 0.895 €. A year earlier diesel cost 1.105 €: it is now 26.4 cents cheaper.

Diesel fell most in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (−1.6 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 0.740 €.

Median prices across Spain

Fuel	Mon 23 Feb	Mon 2 Mar	Change	Week average
Diesel	0.84⁴	0.84¹	no change	0.84²
Petrol 95	0.90³	0.89⁵	0.8 ¢	0.89⁷
Petrol 98	1.01⁵	1.00⁶	0.9 ¢	1.00⁸

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 2 Mar	Change
Fell most
Santa Cruz de Tenerife	0.57⁰	1.6 ¢
Las Palmas	0.57⁶	1.4 ¢
Melilla	0.66⁷	0.8 ¢
Ceuta	0.62⁹	0.7 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

Province	Mon 2 Mar	Change
Fell most
Santa Cruz de Tenerife	0.65⁴	1.6 ¢
Las Palmas	0.66⁵	1.3 ¢
Lleida	0.89⁹	0.7 ¢
Alicante	0.90⁷	0.5 ¢
Badajoz	0.87⁹	0.5 ¢

The cheapest large chains

Chain	Stations	Diesel	Petrol 95
Disa^*	113	0.56⁷ 27.4 ¢	0.64⁵
bonÀrea	30	0.74⁰ 10.1 ¢	0.81⁶
Alcampo	37	0.81⁹ 2.2 ¢	0.86⁸
Avia	80	0.83⁸ median	0.88⁰
Petronor	178	0.83⁸ median	0.87⁹
Agla	49	0.83⁹ median	0.88⁵
Shell	277	0.83⁹ median	0.89²
Campsa	84	0.84⁰ median	0.88⁶
BP	504	0.84¹ median	0.89⁷
Repsol	2,374	0.84² median	0.89²

* 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$ 44.4127.02.2009 · a week earlier: $ 42.19

Brent, € per litre0.221 €27.02.2009 · a week earlier: 0.211 €

EUR/USD1.264427.02.2009 · a week earlier: 1.2591

Spain in the EU, diesel7 / 2702.03.2009 · Spain 0.845 €, EU average 0.946 € (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.