The Petroleum Products Marketing Company, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has increased the ex-depot price of petrol, to N155.17 per litre from N147.67 per litre.
The PPMC disclosed this in an internal memo with reference number PPMC/C/MK/003, dated November 11, 2020, and signed by Tijjani Ali.
The memo said the new ex-depot price would take effect from Friday.
The National Operation Controller, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Mr Mike Osatuyi, in a telephone interview with The Punch, said the over N7 increase in ex-depot price would translate into an increase in pump prices
He said, “The implication of the increase in the ex-depot price is that there is going to be an increase in the pump price. We are expecting the pump price to range from N168 to N170 per litre.”
“Crude oil price is going up,” he said, noting that the Federal Government has fully deregulated petrol prices.
The ex-depot price is the price at which the product is sold by the PPMC to marketers at the depots.
In its PMS price proposal for November, the PPMC put the landing cost of petrol at N128.89 per litre, up from N119.77 per litre in September/October.
It said the estimated minimum pump price of the product would increase to N161.36 per litre from N153.86 per litre.
Meanwhile, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, had said in September that the government had stepped back in fixing the price of petrol, adding that market forces and crude oil price would continue to determine the cost of the product.
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