{"id":13281,"date":"2025-09-23T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13281"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:00:15","slug":"fuel-prices-rise-with-petrol-now-at-gh%c2%a213-38-diesel-gh%c2%a214-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13281","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices rise with petrol now at GH\u00a213.38, diesel GH\u00a214.20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) have begun adjusting prices at the pumps, with GOIL leading the way.<\/p>\n<p>A litre of petrol is now selling at GH\u00a213.38, up from GH\u00a212.99 on September 2, 2025. Diesel has also increased to GH\u00a214.20 per litre, from GH\u00a213.90.<\/p>\n<p>GOIL, the second-largest player in the industry, is the first to adjust prices after most OMCs kept theirs unchanged for about a week, despite projections that prices should have gone up by about 6% per litre from September 16.<\/p>\n<p>Industry watchers are uncertain whether GOIL\u2019s move will trigger similar increases across the more than 200 OMCs nationwide.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Projected Adjustments<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Chamber of Oil Marketing Companies (COMAC) had earlier projected that:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Petrol prices could rise by\u00a0<strong>3.66% to 5.86%<\/strong>, reaching around\u00a0<strong>GH\u00a214.17 per litre<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Diesel could increase by\u00a0<strong>2.12% to 4.32%<\/strong>, potentially hitting\u00a0<strong>GH\u00a214.67 per litre<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) may rise by\u00a0<strong>2.23% to 4.23%<\/strong>, retailing at about\u00a0<strong>GH\u00a214 per kilogram<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reasons for the Increase<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The main driver of the adjustment is the depreciation of the Ghana cedi against the US dollar.<\/p>\n<p>COMAC noted that the cedi fell from GH\u00a211.20 to GH\u00a212.07 to the dollar during the review period \u2014 a 7.76% drop, bringing its year-to-date loss to 14.02%, one of the steepest globally according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decline is primarily due to strong demand for the dollar for imports ahead of the festive season,\u201d COMAC explained.<\/p>\n<p>On the global market, crude oil and refined petroleum product prices actually fell \u2014 petrol by 2.52%, diesel by 4.12%, and LPG by 2.69%.<\/p>\n<p>However, COMAC stressed that the local currency depreciation has offset these declines, making domestic price increases unavoidable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) have begun adjusting prices at the pumps, with GOIL leading the way. A litre of petrol is now selling at GH\u00a213.38, up from GH\u00a212.99 on September 2, 2025. Diesel has also increased to GH\u00a214.20 per litre, from GH\u00a213.90. GOIL, the second-largest player in the industry, is the first to adjust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3537,41],"tags":[4091],"class_list":["post-13281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-general-news","tag-fuel-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13284,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281\/revisions\/13284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}