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Speculation is installed in faucets across the country

Speculation is installed in faucets across the country

As expected, since this week the prices of oil-derived fuels have risen in Peru, dragged down by the war that Eastern Europe is facing. While at the faucet Petroperu from Los Olivos, gasohol 90 went from S/ 15.50 last week to S/ 18.67 this Friday, in southern regions, such as Arequipa, it could exceed S/ 20, according to the sweep carried out by this newspaper in if you.

In the north the situation is no better. For example, compared to the price of S/ 20.79 for gasohol 95 at the Primax tap in Comas, this same fuel could be priced at more than S/ 22 in cities like Chiclayo. All crude derivatives have risen an average of three or four soles in that city.

Edwin Pinedo, president of the Board of Directors of the Association of Faucets and Service Stations of Peru (Agesp), explains that the general increase, derived from a purely circumstantial issue, is supported by the free market powers granted by law. Therefore, the increase in the boards of each faucet does not necessarily depend on their reserves running out.

“The inventories that each faucet has are handled at their discretion. We are in a free market economy and each one transfers the price to the final consumer as he considers best. The driver must use tools like Osinergmin’s Facilito to evaluate the best options”, he recalls.

Jorge Manco Zaconettia researcher at UNMSM, maintains for his part that the recent approval of a prediction that modifies PL 679, for the mass use of NG, perpetuates the model, since it establishes that only one Fuel Inventory Agency (AIC) can be created for Petroperú, which in the case of LPG, for example, does not occupy even 1% of the country. Nobody will be able to supervise the market.

“A hydrocarbon storage agency is created only for the state level, with which private storage coordination is renounced, something that does not happen even in the United States, where the State defines public interest policies without violating the right proprietary. In Peru we do not know what the real storage capacity of private companies is, and that is why they speculate”, he referred.

Infographic – The Republic

local production falls

It is not the only issue that clouds the energy agenda. The Peruvian Hydrocarbons Society (SPH) warned that national oil production between March 1 and 8 fell to 25,000 barrels per day: a drop of 39% compared to February.

This aggravates the country’s situation with regard to fuels, because what is not produced in Peru is imported by paying the international price for this operation. As of February, national demand was around 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) compared to a local production close to 50,000 bpd.

They speculate on diesel

Petroperú warned that diesel B5 S50 UV and LPG-E (kitchen ball) they are not in the group of derivatives whose price was raised by the war, because they are inside the Fuel Price Stabilization Fund (FEPC). Therefore, both maintain prices of S/ 11.54 gallons and S/ 3.18 kilos, respectively, and any increase that appears this week responds to a purely speculative issue. It should be noted that, although the taps do not fill kitchen balls, some do sell them ready on the shelves.

debauchery in the market

Aurelio Ochoa A. Former President Perupetro

If one compares with 2008, when a barrel was more than US$140, a gallon of fuel in Peru was between S/ 10 and S/ 11. It cannot be that in this period that has elapsed the price has almost doubledwith values ​​around S/ 20. This implies that prices have been accumulating over time, something that does not happen in Colombia, for example, where an event does occur: Ecopetrol intervenes.

This is because there is a tacit agreement so that the utility of the fuel, which has a fast rotation (unlike, for example, a refrigerator), does not reach such a high remuneration of 15% or 20%, as the one that is aspire here. We have become accustomed to that kind of debauchery in our market.

Source: Larepublica

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