Spain
Weekly prices
Week 18, 2009

Fuel prices in Spain: week 18 of 2009

Name: Fuel prices in Spain, week 18 of 2009 (27 Apr – 3 May 2009)
Creator: Litrigo

27 Apr – 3 May 2009

Diesel fell by 0.9 cents over the week, to 0.859 €. Petrol 95 fell by 0.7 cents over the week, to 0.949 €. A year earlier diesel cost 1.195 €: it is now 33.6 cents cheaper.

Diesel fell most in Albacete (−1.0 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 0.771 €.

Median prices across Spain

Fuel	Mon 27 Apr	Mon 4 May	Change	Week average
Diesel	0.86⁸	0.85⁹	0.9 ¢	0.86³
Petrol 95	0.95⁶	0.94⁹	0.7 ¢	0.95²
Petrol 98	1.06⁹	1.06²	0.7 ¢	1.06⁵

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 4 May	Change
Fell most
Albacete	0.87⁴	1.0 ¢
Álava	0.84⁶	1.0 ¢
Asturias	0.86⁹	1.0 ¢
Bizkaia	0.84⁶	1.0 ¢
Burgos	0.84⁶	1.0 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

Province	Mon 4 May	Change
Rose most
Melilla	0.71⁵	3.2 ¢
Ceuta	0.69⁰	1.0 ¢
Las Palmas	0.70⁹	0.6 ¢
Fell most
Albacete	0.96²	0.8 ¢
Alicante	0.96³	0.8 ¢
Álava	0.93⁴	0.8 ¢
Asturias	0.96²	0.8 ¢
Illes Balears	0.94⁴	0.8 ¢

The cheapest large chains

Chain	Stations	Diesel	Petrol 95
Disa^*	107	0.58¹ 27.8 ¢	0.70¹
bonÀrea	30	0.77¹ 8.8 ¢	0.88²
Alcampo	38	0.83⁸ 2.1 ¢	0.92⁵
Petronor	182	0.84⁷ 1.2 ¢	0.93⁵
Carrefour	98	0.84⁸ 1.1 ¢	0.93⁹
Agla	52	0.85⁶ median	0.93⁸
Avia	84	0.85⁶ median	0.93⁹
Campsa	89	0.85⁶ median	0.94⁴
Repsol	2,461	0.85⁷ median	0.94⁵
Shell	302	0.85⁹ median	0.94⁸

* 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$ 51.7501.05.2009 · a week earlier: $ 50.29

Brent, € per litre0.245 €01.05.2009 · a week earlier: 0.239 €

EUR/USD1.327530.04.2009 · a week earlier: 1.3232

Spain in the EU, diesel7 / 2704.05.2009 · Spain 0.860 €, EU average 0.976 € (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.