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Issue 39: Gasoline Prices in The World and in Georgia
Issue 39: Gasoline Prices in The World and in Georgia
06-Feb-2015

Since July 2014, the world price of the crude oil per barrel has started to decline significantly. In January 2015, the price on per barrel (116 liter) of crude oil decreases by 57.45 USD compared to July 2014 and equals 45.7 USD. Hence, in this period, the world price of the crude oil decreased by 55.7%, while the price of premium type gasoline in Georgia decreases only by 20.3%.

In 2014, the daily world oil supply increases by 2.1% compared to 2013. In this period, the daily world oil demand also increases (0.7%), but the growth of demand is lower compared to the growth of supply, hence, on average the daily world crude oil supply exceeds the daily world crude oil demand by 0.8 mb.