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Weekly prices
Week 11, 2009

Fuel prices in Spain: week 11 of 2009

Name: Fuel prices in Spain, week 11 of 2009 (9 Mar – 15 Mar 2009)
Creator: Litrigo

9 Mar – 15 Mar 2009

Diesel fell by 1.0 cents over the week, to 0.829 €. That is the lowest diesel price since our records began in 2007. Petrol 95 fell by 0.9 cents over the week, to 0.907 €. A year earlier diesel cost 1.143 €: it is now 31.4 cents cheaper.

Diesel rose most in Ceuta (+0.6 cents). Diesel fell most in Illes Balears (−1.6 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 0.739 €.

Median prices across Spain

Fuel	Mon 9 Mar	Mon 16 Mar	Change	Week average
Diesel	0.83⁹	0.82⁹	1.0 ¢	0.83⁵
Petrol 95	0.91⁶	0.90⁷	0.9 ¢	0.91³
Petrol 98	1.02⁸	1.02⁰	0.8 ¢	1.02⁶

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 16 Mar	Change
Rose most
Ceuta	0.61⁶	0.6 ¢
Melilla	0.65³	0.6 ¢
Fell most
Illes Balears	0.82²	1.6 ¢
Granada	0.82²	1.4 ¢
Castellón	0.83⁹	1.2 ¢
Lleida	0.83⁸	1.1 ¢
Almería	0.82⁴	1.0 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

Province	Mon 16 Mar	Change
Rose most
Melilla	0.66¹	1.9 ¢
Ceuta	0.65¹	1.5 ¢
Las Palmas	0.66⁹	0.9 ¢
Santa Cruz de Tenerife	0.66⁴	0.6 ¢
Fell most
Albacete	0.91⁶	1.8 ¢
Álava	0.88⁸	1.8 ¢
Asturias	0.91⁶	1.8 ¢
Illes Balears	0.89⁸	1.8 ¢
Bizkaia	0.88⁸	1.8 ¢

The cheapest large chains

Chain	Stations	Diesel	Petrol 95
Disa^*	109	0.56⁶ 26.3 ¢	0.66⁴
bonÀrea	30	0.73⁹ 9.0 ¢	0.83⁶
Alcampo	38	0.81⁰ 1.9 ¢	0.87⁹
Petronor	176	0.82¹ 0.8 ¢	0.88⁹
Agla	50	0.82² 0.7 ¢	0.89⁸
Avia	79	0.82³ 0.6 ¢	0.89³
Carrefour	96	0.82⁸ median	0.89⁹
Campsa	90	0.82⁹ median	0.90⁶
Cepsa	592	0.82⁹ median	0.90⁵
Repsol	2,407	0.82⁹ median	0.90⁶

* 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$ 44.9713.03.2009 · a week earlier: $ 43.48

Brent, € per litre0.219 €13.03.2009 · a week earlier: 0.216 €

EUR/USD1.290513.03.2009 · a week earlier: 1.2658

Spain in the EU, diesel6 / 2716.03.2009 · Spain 0.831 €, EU average 0.937 € (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.