Because of the sharp rise in stock exchange prices for gasoline Recently, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia began to conduct raids against oil traders. This is reported with reference to the press service of the department reports RIA Novosti.
The basis for unscheduled inspections, as explained in the FAS, steel “monitoring results of the antimonopoly service of exchange indicators for petroleum products”. This work has become a continuation of the analysis of factors affecting the price change.
A few years ago, the department has already requested information about the volume of supply of petroleum products to domestic and foreign markets since the beginning of the year. It was about road gasoline, diesel fuel and aviation kerosene.
On the eve, on July 28, it became known that the Ministry of Energy was revealed for several days to analyze the possibility of temporary ban on gasoline exports. The head of the department Nikolai Shulginov pointed out that the decision will be accepted after July 30. By that time it becomes clear whether the sustainable price reduction trend has become.
In the framework of trading at the St. Petersburg International Commodity Exchange, the price of gasoline began to fall after record growth. They demonstrated such behavior after the export prohibition was named in the main way to solve the problem.
Previously, the deputy head of the Ministry of Energy Pavel Sorokin noted that all regulatory documents are ready for such a decision. At the same time, he stressed that the problem would be better to solve the market way, so as not to cause damage to oil companies.