The first day of the working week was marked by a correction in prices in the segment of gasoline. Transaction prices of gasoline Ai92 grows slightly, but on most bases. Ai95 high-octane, despite the mixed vector, remained at the level of the previous day.
The oversupply of gasoline against actual consumption is manifested in the form of a two-week sliding the gasoline index. To stop the process of decline in the gasoline market in two ways – either to increase demand, which in winter months is impossible, either to reduce production.
In this way, ready to fight the oil companies. Today the SPIMEX has published plans of the task a minimum sales volumes of petroleum products in February 2017.
Compared to January, also not is very generous with gasoline, Winky will cut production in February by 8%, to an absolute minimum – 2,644 million tons over the three-year history. In addition to the Moscow refinery, which almost falls out of the register of fuel suppliers for the next two months, primary processing will reduce the majority of the refinery. Retain only the production of the Volgograd and Ryazan refinery.
In March the repair of the Moscow refinery will continue, and since the first of April to the planned renovation will begin in the Yaroslavl refinery, reducing by one third the volume of primary processing.
Of course, the oil companies and the Ministry of energy claim that the capacity of the refinery is sufficient to meet domestic demand without resorting to schemes of accumulation of stocks before a high season as it is usually practiced in the past. Maybe it is, but doubts the sincerity of the statements remain, the impression that the price is a lull in the petrol segment will not last long.
In addition to the desire to bring the refining margin from negative into positive territory, oil companies aim to push fallen asleep in 2016 retail prices. Let me remind you, when issued by the Antimonopoly service plug with the growth of retail prices in the range of 5.4% (that is inflation 2016), real gasoline at retail monitoring, the FAS has risen by 4.6-4.8% and diesel fuel – by 2.6%.
Allowed behind the scenes appreciation liters last year is not implemented. And to push the retail up you need to first warm up the prices in the wholesale segment. Warmed up. And now from the regions come to negotiate about unusually high for the season the growth rate of prices at the gas station. So, a liter of gasoline at the Moscow gas stations has risen in January by 30-40 cents, which were not previously observed. Liter of diesel fuel has risen by 70 cents.
In the segment of diesel fuel continues counter-movement of the prices for winter classes and off-season varieties. First cheaper, second more expensive.
Translated by service "Yandex.Translation"
