Expert Analytical Group (EAG) on the market of petroleum and petroleum products in the Ministry of Fuel and Energy, at its meeting on June 6, intends to consider changing the method of calculating the cost of motor fuel at petrol stations. As the Director General of the SOEs' Ukrneftehimpererabotka (analyzes prices) Vladimir Emelin, the team can return to the formula, which worked until May of this year.

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then calculated the price based on the average wholesale cost of fuel between the Ukrainian and foreign production. And since May, the experts in the Ministry of Fuel and Energy no longer take into account the domestic consumption of petroleum products. By the time it coincided with a sharp increase in the cost of fuel at filling stations. In June, the price has jumped to more than 10%. For example, gasoline A-95 for filling the capital's already 6,88-6,93 UAH per liter.

Now with the Ministry of Fuel and Energy Group uses only the data of American private company Platt's, which, in turn, takes the value of quotes for petroleum products in the European market. The cheaper price does not take into account Ukraine's oil, - said Deputy Director Science and Technology Center Psyche Gennadij Ryabtsev. According to experts, the decision to exclude from the formula value of domestic petroleum lobby big oil, who want to justify the increase in the cost of their products.

Although the EAG does not have the authority to regulate the market, the figures are an indicator. That is, if the estimated prices increased, oil is not being blocked to raise their prices.

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network of filling stations CLAUD Vyacheslav Стешенко believes that the formula was revised due to objective reasons. Now the cost of gasoline is almost entirely dependent on its price abroad, the Ukrainian oil covers only 18-20% of consumption. In turn, we buy 80-90% of oil abroad, so the cost of fuel in our gas stations is dependent on import prices rather than from fluctuations in the prices of domestic oil refineries, - said Стешенко.

statistics in the market as a whole, which has a case shows a different picture. According to them, in May, the Ukrainian refineries produced 289.2 thousand tons of petrol. In the same period, oil brought to the country of 128.4 thousand tons. That is, the share of own production was approximately 65%. This is the ratio of import and Ukrainian products on the market there, and in June, in the methodology of calculation of indicative prices that do not take into account, - said analyst consulting company UPECO Gleb Prostakov.

market analysts rightly point out that most of the Ukrainian oil refining is concentrated in the hands of a financial-industrial group - Inside - and this affects the situation on the market. However, have their own power and other major market participants, such as TNK-BP and Lukoil-Ukraine . In this part of oil outside the Inside, have the opportunity to purchase petroleum products on verifiable group Kremenchug refinery.

Another factor indicating the injustice of calculations EAG: Ukrainian Oil buy gasoline at prices lower than those shown Platt's. In order to make hit Gostamozhni data on the cost of imported petrol. According to him, gasoline A-95 in early June, imported at a price of 652-692 dollars per ton. While, according to quotes Platt's, the cost of each ton of fuel on the international market was on average 35 dollars higher.

Thus, the estimated UPECO, using the old methodology for calculating the cost of petrol would have cost of fuel at an average of 15-20 cents less than its displays EAG now.

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