Fuel costs will stay stable all through the period of April, the Establishment for Energy Security (IES) has anticipated.
Mr Fritz Moses, Exploration Expert, IES, ascribed the extended security in costs to the drop in costs of oil based goods on the global market in the last valuing window.
He gave the projection in a meeting with the Ghana News Office,
In its audit of the April 2022 First Estimating Window (April 1 to April 16, 2022), the IES observed that Brent Unrefined cost remained generally underneath the $110 per barrel mark, shutting the window beneath $100 per barrel.
“For the window under appraisal, costs arrived at a normal of $104.98 per barrel, addressing a 3.03 percent decrease over the past window’s normal cost of $108.27 per barrel,” it said.
“Fuel cost fell barely by 1.06 percent, from its underlying cost of $1060.23 per metric ton to the end date cost of $1049.02 per metric ton,” it added.
The Foundation, notwithstanding, showed that the Cedi, which is a significant variable in deciding fuel costs privately, devalued by 1.44 percent to close at Gh¢7.79 to the Dollar from the previous window’s pace of Gh¢7.68 to the Dollar.
“For the rest of April 2022, with the 1.5 percent cedi deterioration against the Dollar, 1.06 percent fall in petroleum cost, 3.65 percent fall in diesel cost, and 3.72 percent fall in the cost of LPG per metric ton, the IES projects relative steadiness in the cost of fuel on the neighborhood market,” it said.
Presently, petroleum and diesel are exchanging at a typical Gh¢9.39 and Gh¢10.33 per liter separately.
This is a decrease of 4.37 percent on the past normal cost of Gh¢9.80 per liter for petroleum and a 3.46 percent decrease from the past diesel normal cost of Gh¢10.70 per liter.
As a feature of measures to diminish the effect of the Cedi’s deterioration on the petrol market, the Bank of Ghana recently presented an unfamiliar trade forward sell off for Mass Oil Appropriating Organizations (BDCs).
The move, which is restrictive for BDCs authorized by the Public Oil Authority (NPA), is expected to decrease the vulnerability of things to come accessibility of forex to help cost strength in the following estimating window inside the downstream area.
The Public authority, starting this month, decreased the edges on fuel by 15 pesewas for each liter for the following three months.
The BOST edge has been scaled down by two pesewas for each liter, and the Bound together Oil Estimating Asset Edge has additionally been decreased by nine pesewas for every liter.
The Public authority further decreased the Fuel Stamping Edge by one pesewa for every liter, with the Essential Dissemination Edge additionally diminished by three pesewas for each liter.