NEWS: No gasoline price cuts until 2007 — Flying V
Local oil dealer Flying V sees crude oil price to stay at $65 per barrel on the average for the medium term until end-December.
This will mean that price rollback on domestic fuels will unlikely to happen in the coming weeks, Flying V chairman Ramon Villavicencio said.
Flying V, nevertheless, said it will continue with its offer of discounted price of diesel at P1 per liter for public utility vehicles.
The company has 42 stations offering the P1 discount out of the 110 stations nationwide. It will be continuing this offer due to the locational presence of competitor stations offering discounted diesel prices, Villavicencio said.
He further said the discounted diesel is partly being subsidized by its revenues from gasoline, but this product only contributes sales of 35 percent compared to 65 percent share of diesel.
The gross margin for major oil companies in the domestic market is 8 percent and this is reduced to 3 percent net margin. Villavicencio said this is the going rate under the deregulated oil industry.
For the independent oil companies including Flying V, the net margin is between 3 percent to 4 percent which is derived after deducting expenses for operation and amortization on capital depreciation, among others.
Revenues from retail business which major oil firms get from such franchised food outlets is not commonly derived from operations among stations of independent oil firms, according to Villavicencio.
In continuing with the P1 diesel discount, Flying V has to maintain its provision of P0.60 per liter for the margin of its dealers.
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