Fuel Prices: COPEC-GH Projects Petrol and Diesel Prices To Reduce Further From January 1

• Fuel prices are projected to fall at the pumps from January 1, 2023 to an average price of a little above GH¢11
• According to COPEC-GH, petrol prices will drop to about GH¢10.63 while diesel will sell for GH¢15.28, representing significant reductions
• COPEC-GH attributes the projections to the falling prices of crude oil on the international market and a strong cedi against the dollar

The Chamber for Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC-GH), a downstream petroleum industry think tank, has projected a further reduction in the price of fuel during the next pricing window.

According to the think tank, the international price of crude and cedi-dollar exchange rate both point to favourable pricing of petroleum products from January 1, 2023.

Duncan Amoah, the executive director of the COPEC-GH, told YEN.com.gh in an exclusive correspondence that because crude price has dropped from $82.79 to $80.49 per barrel and the dollar rate has also decreased slightly from an average of GH¢14.013 to GH¢10.30, pump prices should reduce significantly from next week.

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“With the international price decreasing from $763.63 per metric tonne to $722.84 per metric tonne (a 5.34% reduction), the retail price works up to GH¢10.63 per litre.

“Petrol retail prices are therefore expected to drop by 13.78% from the current Mean value of GH¢12.33 per litre,” COPEC-GH’s executive director disclosed.

Diesel is also expected to reduce from the current GH¢15.28 to GH¢12.85 per litre after a projected 15.86% drop in prices.

COPEC-GH explained that the mean price of petrol and diesel will be GH¢11.74 per litre.

Also, the projected retail price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is expected to decrease by about 25.16% from the current average of GH¢13.63 kg to GH¢10.20 per kilogramme.

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Meanwhile, YEN.com.gh has reported that the astronomical fuel prices increases that contributed to inflation ceased from the second pricing window in November 2022.

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Petrol prices reduced to about GH¢13 per litre from GH¢15.41, while diesel to about dropped to about GH¢16 from GH¢18 per litre.

Also, LPG dropped to GH¢12 per kilogramme from about GH¢13 cedis.

Source: YEN.com.gh