Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/03/17
By Chiu Po-sheng and Emerson Lim
Taipei, March 17 (CNA) As international oil prices continue to go upward, Taiwan’s two
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major oil companies will hike the prices at their gas stations around the nation.
State-run oil refiner CPC Corp., Taiwan announced in a statement that effective midnight March 17, the adjusted price of 92 octane unleaded gasoline will be NT$26.80 (US$0.86) per liter; 95 octane unleaded will be raised to NT$28.30 per liter; and 98 octane unleaded will cost NT$30.30 per liter, according to CPC.
The cost of super diesel will be NT$25.90 per liter.
The average crude price computed on the 7D3B formula, which is made up of 70 percent Dubai crude and 30 percent Brent crude, was at US$66.94 per barrel this week, up US$1.58 from last week’s US$65.36, according to the CPC. [FULL STORY]
