ATF worth hiked by steepest ever 18% to all-time excessive

Jet gasoline costs on Wednesday had been hiked by over 18 per cent – the steepest ever improve – to all-time excessive ranges after worldwide oil worth surged to a multi-year excessive.

The improve – sixth straight this yr – led to costs hovering previous the Rs 1-lakh-per-kilolitre mark for the primary time ever.

Aviation turbine gasoline (ATF) – the gasoline that helps aeroplanes fly – was hiked by 17,135.63 per kl, or 18.3 per cent, to Rs 110,666.29 per kl within the nationwide capital, in response to a worth notification by state-owned gasoline retailers.

Jet gasoline costs are revised on the first and sixteenth of each month primarily based on the common worldwide worth of benchmark gasoline within the previous fortnight.

International oil costs had climbed to a 14-year excessive of close to USD 140 per barrel final week on fears of provide disruption following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Rates have since mellowed to round USD 100 per barrel.

In Mumbai, ATF worth soared to Rs 109,119.83 a kl and it prices Rs 114,979.70 in Kolkata. Jet gasoline is priced at Rs 114,133.73 per kl in Chennai.

Jet gasoline, which makes up for nearly 40 per cent of the operating price of an airline, has this yr surged to new highs.

The earlier peak of Rs 71,028.26 per kl was recorded in August 2008, when worldwide crude oil costs touched USD 147 per barrel. Brent crude oil on Wednesday was buying and selling simply above USD 100 per barrel.

ATF costs have elevated each fortnight because the begin of 2022. In six hikes starting January 1, ATF costs have been elevated by Rs 36,643.88 kl or virtually 50 per cent.

Unlike ATF, petrol and diesel costs proceed to stay on freeze for a document 132nd straight day on Wednesday. The each day worth revision was placed on maintain on November 4, 2021, simply as electioneering to elect new governments in states like Uttar Pradesh and Punjab began.

Cooking gasoline LPG costs too have been on freeze since October, after they touched Rs 900 per cylinder.

This is regardless of a wild swing in worldwide oil costs. Brent crude oil, the best-known worldwide benchmark, was at USD 82.74 per barrel on November 5, 2021, earlier than it began to fall and touched USD 68.87 a barrel on December 1.

Prices climbed to over USD 139 per barrel final week following the Russia-Ukraine disaster and at the moment are buying and selling at USD 101, effectively above the height of USD 86.40 touched on October 26, 2021, which had led to petrol and diesel costs spiking to an all-time excessive.

Petrol prices Rs 95.41 a litre in Delhi and diesel is priced at Rs 86.67, worth info from state gasoline retailers confirmed.

The record-high retail pump costs prompted the federal government to chop excise obligation on petrol by Rs 5 a litre and that on diesel by Rs 10. Many states matched this with a discount in native gross sales tax or VAT charges.

Before the excise obligation reduce, petrol and diesel costs had touched an all-time excessive throughout the nation. While petrol had crossed the Rs 100 a litre mark in most cities, diesel was above that degree in practically half the nation. In Delhi, petrol was Rs 110.04 a litre and diesel was Rs 98.42.