The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) has released the prices of petroleum products of the various oil marketing companies (OMCs) as at Monday, September 28, 2015.

  
The prices chart indicated that UBI sells the cheapest fuel among 10 OMCs selected by COPEC followed by So Energy and Eve Oil.

As at Monday, September 28, 2015, UBI’s petrol price per litre was GH¢2.880 while diesel per litre was sold for GH¢2.790.

So Energy quoted GH¢2.900 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.800 per litre of diesel and Ev Oil quoted GH¢2.910 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.820 per litre of diesel.

Frimps Oil quoted GH¢2.915 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.790 per litre of diesel and Allied Oil quoted GH¢2.924 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.822 per litre of diesel.

Glory Oil quoted GH¢2.928 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.828 per litre of diesel and Star Oil quoted GH¢2.928 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.828 per litre of diesel.

GOIL quoted GH¢ 2.929 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.829 per litre of diesel and Shell Ghana quoted GH¢2.929 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.829 per litre of diesel.

Total Ghana also quoted GH¢2.929 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.829 per litre of diesel.

According to the Chamber, the prices chart would help Ghanaians to know the OMC that sells the cheapest fuel on the market since the deregulation exercise started.

Deregulation

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) on June 16, 2015 allowed all OMCs to set their own ex-pump prices for petroleum products.

The pricing by the OMCs is in conformity with the full implementation of NPA’s petroleum product price deregulation.

Credit: Graphic Online (BY Cephas Larbi)