... were supposed to last until the end of the year, but the authorities are ready to accommodate the oil producers. From a formal standpoint, this decision could have been prompted by a noticeable slowdown in prices. According to Rosstat, while retail gasoline prices grew by 4.1% from May 21 to August 5, over the following 15 weeks they only rose by 3%. However, the key factor in practice was the duration of the ban. The longer it remained in place, the fewer incentives oil producers had to keep prices down: ...

... column by Sergey Tereshkin for RBC Companies. In the fuel market, there continues to be an accelerated increase in prices for AI-98 gasoline. While retail prices for AI-92 and AI-95 gasoline rose by 0.1% during the week of October 15–21, 2024, AI-98 gasoline prices increased by 0.6%. This discrepancy is even more pronounced in the cumulative dynamics over the first nine months of the year: compared to the end of 2023, retail prices for AI-92 gasoline by October 21, 2024, increased by 6.8%, and for AI-95 ...

... "Open Oil Market" petroleum products marketplace (a resident of Skolkovo), shared with RIA Novosti. Earlier on Tuesday, the Kommersant newspaper, citing calculations by the Petromarket Group, reported that despite a decline in wholesale gasoline prices in September, gas station operators have been incurring losses from selling AI-95 gasoline for the third consecutive month. At the same time, the "economics of AI-92 sales, although worsened, remains positive." Meanwhile, the price of ...

... ban on the export of automotive gasoline for all companies, including major producers and refineries, has come into effect until August 31, 2025. This emergency measure aims to prevent fuel shortages in the domestic market and curb the wave of rising gasoline prices during peak summer demand (holiday season and harvesting campaign). Previously, restrictions only applied to traders and small refiners; however, by the end of July, wholesale gasoline prices had reached historical highs, forcing the government ...

Tereshkin: Over the past 30 years, gasoline prices in the United States have been closely tied to global oil prices, despite a significant increase in domestic production. Since 2010, oil production in the country has more than doubled, and imports have decreased by almost 30%. Nevertheless, in ...