Spain
Weekly prices
Week 12, 2009

Fuel prices in Spain: week 12 of 2009

Name: Fuel prices in Spain, week 12 of 2009 (16 Mar – 22 Mar 2009)
Creator: Litrigo

16 Mar – 22 Mar 2009

Diesel rose by 0.6 cents over the week, to 0.835 €. Petrol 95 hardly changed over the week and ended at 0.909 €. A year earlier diesel cost 1.150 €: it is now 31.5 cents cheaper.

Diesel rose most in Albacete (+1.0 cents). Diesel fell most in Ceuta (−0.6 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 0.746 €.

Median prices across Spain

Fuel	Mon 16 Mar	Mon 23 Mar	Change	Week average
Diesel	0.82⁹	0.83⁵	0.6 ¢	0.83¹
Petrol 95	0.90⁷	0.90⁹	no change	0.90⁷
Petrol 98	1.02⁰	1.02¹	no change	1.01⁹

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 23 Mar	Change
Rose most
Albacete	0.85⁸	1.0 ¢
Álava	0.83⁰	1.0 ¢
Bizkaia	0.83⁰	1.0 ¢
Cantabria	0.83⁰	1.0 ¢
Ciudad Real	0.85⁸	1.0 ¢
Fell most
Ceuta	0.61⁰	0.6 ¢
Melilla	0.64⁸	0.5 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

Province	Mon 23 Mar	Change
Rose most
Albacete	0.92⁶	1.0 ¢
Álava	0.89⁸	1.0 ¢
Asturias	0.92⁶	1.0 ¢
Illes Balears	0.90⁸	1.0 ¢
Bizkaia	0.89⁸	1.0 ¢

The cheapest large chains

Chain	Stations	Diesel	Petrol 95
Disa^*	105	0.56² 27.3 ¢	0.66⁰
bonÀrea	30	0.74⁶ 8.9 ¢	0.84³
Alcampo	38	0.81⁰ 2.5 ¢	0.87⁸
Agla	52	0.82⁹ 0.6 ¢	0.89⁹
Avia	81	0.83⁰ 0.5 ¢	0.89⁸
Petronor	179	0.83⁰ 0.5 ¢	0.89⁹
Carrefour	96	0.83¹ median	0.90⁶
Shell	288	0.83¹ median	0.90⁵
BP	512	0.83⁵ median	0.90⁹
Campsa	89	0.83⁶ median	0.90⁷

* 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$ 49.2720.03.2009 · a week earlier: $ 44.97

Brent, € per litre0.229 €20.03.2009 · a week earlier: 0.219 €

EUR/USD1.354920.03.2009 · a week earlier: 1.2905

Spain in the EU, diesel8 / 2723.03.2009 · Spain 0.837 €, EU average 0.939 € (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.