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Dangote Refinery Reduces Petrol Price

Key Takeaways

  • Dangote Petroleum Refinery cut its ex-gantry petrol price by ₦25 per litre, reducing it from ₦1,350 to ₦1,325 per litre.
  • The refinery’s cut followed a drop in crude prices, with Brent at $100.40 per barrel, down 3.34 per cent, and WTI at $92.40, down 3.83 per cent.
  • Petroleumprice.ng data showed Warri and Port Harcourt depots sold near ₦1,330 and Calabar at ₦1,327, while Lagos depots stayed higher at ₦1,351 per litre.

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has reduced its ex-gantry price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, by ₦25 per litre, barely nine days after raising it by ₦85.

The refinery lowered the price from ₦1,350 to ₦1,325 per litre in its latest price adjustment.

The reduction comes amid a decline in international crude oil prices, with Brent crude trading at $100.40 per barrel, down 3.34 per cent, while West Texas Intermediate stood at $92.40, down 3.83 per cent at the latest market update.

The latest adjustment follows Dangote’s September 12 decision to increase its petrol price from ₦1,265 to ₦1,350 per litre.

The ₦85 increase had pushed up prices at several coastal depots as marketers adjusted their wholesale rates to reflect the new refinery benchmark.

The subsequent decline in crude prices has now given the refinery room to reduce its ex-gantry price.

The movement in the international oil market has also been linked to renewed expectations of diplomatic engagement between the United States and Iran, easing some pressure on crude prices.

According to BusinessDay, petrol prices at several coastal depots have moved closer to Dangote’s latest benchmark.

Data obtained from energy publication Petroleumprice.ng showed that monitored depots in Warri and Port Harcourt were selling petrol at about ₦1,330 per litre on Monday, while some Calabar depots quoted ₦1,327.

In Warri, Keonamex, Sharon and Prudent depots sold the product at ₦1,330 per litre. Masters and TSL depots in Port Harcourt also quoted N1,330.

Alkanes, Mainland and Sobaz depots in Calabar sold at ₦1,327 per litre. However, prices in Lagos remained higher, with Integrated and Ascon depots quoting ₦1,351 per litre.

With the latest adjustment, most monitored coastal depots are now between ₦2 and ₦5 above Dangote’s ₦1,325 ex-gantry price, while Lagos depots are about ₦26 higher.

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  1. Dangote and all Nigeria oil marketers no what they are doing. They know how to manipulate Nigerians. When want to adjust pump price, they would increase the price with like #200 or #300 and when they see that Nigerians are shouting, they now remove like #10 or #20. They will tell us that they’ve reduce the price of fuel.

  2. Jimoh Monsurat Adenike says:

    My security questions i pick
    Answer the same way
    And they are saying is not correct.i they blocked me

  3. Jimoh Monsurat adenike says:

    The security questions i pick up and answer it,they said is not correct, when I re answer question 1 &2

  4. abubakar masoyi says:

    Our prayer is may the Petroleum price riduce to 400 per 1 letre, because the cost of peul price that is cousin aloft of goods price is going higher and it also contributes to cost of transportation nation wide🙏😭