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Fuel prices in Spain: week 15 of 2009

6 Apr – 12 Apr 2009

Diesel rose by 0.8 cents over the week, to 0.867 €. That is the highest diesel price since Feb 2009. Petrol 95 rose by 0.6 cents over the week, to 0.945 €. That is the highest petrol 95 price since Nov 2008. A year earlier diesel cost 1.142 €: it is now 27.5 cents cheaper.

Diesel rose most in Melilla (+1.6 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 0.774 €.

Median prices across Spain

FuelMon 6 AprMon 13 AprChangeWeek average
Diesel0.8590.8670.8 ¢0.864
Petrol 950.9390.9450.6 ¢0.943
Petrol 981.0511.0570.6 ¢1.055

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

0.850.900.9512 Jan2 Mar13 AprPetrol 95Diesel
DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 13 AprChange
Rose most
Melilla0.6801.6 ¢
Ceuta0.6401.5 ¢
Albacete0.8931.2 ¢
Alicante0.8791.2 ¢
Álava0.8651.2 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 13 AprChange
Rose most
Melilla0.6891.3 ¢
Ceuta0.6771.2 ¢
Teruel0.9391.1 ¢
Almería0.9390.9 ¢
Huelva0.9380.9 ¢

The cheapest large chains

ChainStationsDieselPetrol 95
Disa*1070.586 28.1 ¢0.679
bonÀrea300.774 9.3 ¢0.864
Alcampo380.832 3.5 ¢0.909
Agla490.859 0.8 ¢0.936
Avia840.860 0.7 ¢0.935
Petronor1820.865 median0.940
Carrefour960.866 median0.940
Shell2990.866 median0.941
BP5060.868 median0.942
Cepsa6090.869 median0.946

* 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$ 52.3309.04.2009 · a week earlier: $ 50.48
Brent, € per litre0.248 €09.04.2009 · a week earlier: 0.237 €
EUR/USD1.327309.04.2009 · a week earlier: 1.3425

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.