In St. Petersburg, the price of gas per liter at gas filling stations has increased from 25–27 to 37–39 rubles in a week. According to the Russia Base monitoring service, at some gas stations, the increase over the past 15 days has exceeded 10%. The average price in the Leningrad region is slightly more than 30 rubles per liter. This is reported by BFM.
A similar trend is observed in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where a physical shortage of gas at gas stations was previously recorded. Now there is fuel, but the price has increased from 23 to 36 rubles per liter. Market participants explain the growth by a combination of factors: the exchange price of propane-butane has risen from 16 to 23 thousand rubles per ton, Russian Railways increased tariffs from January 1, transport costs have increased due to the increase in VAT and the transition of some entrepreneurs to another taxation system.
Supply disruptions in the Nizhny Novgorod region have now been eliminated and are under the control of the regional Ministry of Industry and Trade. According to market participants, the problem mainly affected small regional players.
A short-term shortage was also previously recorded in Ivanovo, Yaroslavl, Volgograd, Tatarstan and the Moscow region. The reasons cited were disruptions on the railway, active exports of liquefied petroleum gas due to higher prices abroad, and shutdowns at gas processing plants. The coincidence of several factors at once turned local disruptions into a price jump that affected several regions at once.
