In Russia, the cheaper gasoline because checks FAS – sovsekretno

 

The Russian wholesale gasoline prices unexpectedly fell after a month of continuous growth. July 7, A-92 at the exchange SPIMEX rose by 15% to 41.9 thousand rubles per ton. AI-95 for the period rose by 10.5% to 43 thousand rubles per ton, reaching a record high this year and came very close to last year’s October highs. However, over the last three days of last week the price of gasoline fell by 1.5%, writes “Kommersant”.

 

 According to the companion publication, the price decline is due to the activity of the FAS, as the service is already prepared documents for initiating proceedings against a new “Bashneft” for the reduction of processing, increased buying gasoline on the stock exchange and restrictions on shipments of small wholesale in early June, other oil companies have received informal warnings.

 

 The head of the profile of the FAS Dmitry Makhonin told the newspaper that a “Bashneft” in the service is really “more serious claims than other companies, and we look at their behavior.”

 

 According to the monitoring of prices in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the average retail price of gasoline A-95 petrol stations “LUKOIL-Volganefteproduct” in June amounted to 35.73 rubles per 1 liter and gas stations “Gazprom -Severo-West” – 35.18 per rubbley 1 liter. This is 40 cents and 60 ahead of the beginning of the year.