Fulham and Seaton Hold Unleaded at 219.9 While Brooklyn Park Sells at 201.5, 2.7 km Away
Wholesale petrol in Adelaide has fallen 30.4 cents a litre since Monday 2nd November, and the city's median unleaded price has come down 18 cents in that time. On one short stretch of the western suburbs, the cuts have landed very unevenly. As at 2:10pm AEDT (1:40pm in Adelaide) on Friday 13th November, five servos in Fulham, Seaton, Grange and West Beach are selling unleaded at 219.9. X Convenience in Brooklyn Park, 2.7 km east of OTR Fulham, is on 201.5.
Who is charging what
In the official South Australian fuel pricing data, the five on 219.9 are OTR Fulham on Henley Beach Road, Ampol Foodary Fulham on Tapleys Hill Road, OTR Seaton, Ampol Foodary Grange and the OTR drive thru at Harbourtown. OTR West Beach on Military Road is 2 cents lower at 217.9.
A few kilometres inland along Henley Beach Road, prices are much lower. X Convenience Brooklyn Park at number 299 and Mobil Torrensville at number 239, 600 metres apart, are both on 201.5, and so is United Adelaide Airport. OTR Underdale, on the opposite side of the road and 170 metres from X Convenience, is on 203.4, and AM/PM Mile End is on 203.9. That makes four brands within 2 km of each other, all between 201.5 and 203.9.
On a 50 litre tank, the 18.4 cent gap between Fulham and Brooklyn Park is worth $9.20.
Two OTR sites on Henley Beach Road, 16.5 cents apart
OTR Fulham at 510 Henley Beach Road and OTR Underdale at 282 Henley Beach Road are 2.9 km apart. At 3pm on Tuesday 3rd November, Fulham was 6.5 cents dearer. Today the gap is 16.5 cents, and premium 98 shows the same gap, at 242.9 in Fulham and 226.4 in Underdale.
Since Friday 6th November, OTR has cut prices in six network wide steps of 1 or 2 cents. The largest came between 9:00 and 10:00am Adelaide time on Thursday, when 148 OTR sites across South Australia cut unleaded by exactly 2 cents. OTR Fulham has moved only in those steps, 10 cents in total.
Underdale took every network step as well, and twice it went further. At 5:15am on Tuesday it cut 6 cents to 208.4, a tenth of a cent under X Convenience across the road, on a morning when the rest of the network cut 1 cent. On Thursday, X Convenience moved to 201.5 at 11:26am, and three hours later Underdale cut another 3 cents to 203.4.
In Fulham, OTR and Ampol Foodary have stayed level. Since Thursday 5th November the two sites have ended every day on the same price. OTR has moved first each time, and Ampol Foodary has followed later the same day.
How far above wholesale
The Australian Institute of Petroleum's terminal gate price for Adelaide unleaded, the wholesale benchmark, was 225.0 on 2nd November and is 194.5 today. Since noon on 2nd November, OTR Fulham has come down 15.0 cents, X Convenience Brooklyn Park 21.0 cents and OTR Underdale 23.5 cents. At 219.9, the Fulham group sits 25.4 cents above today's terminal gate price. Brooklyn Park is 7.0 cents above it.
Across 291 metropolitan servos, the Adelaide median has moved from 227.9 at noon on 2nd November to 217.9 on Monday and 209.9 today. Even so, 219.9 is now the most common unleaded price in the city, shared by 21 servos. Thirteen of them are OTR sites, spread from Seaton and Fulham to Kent Town, Golden Grove and Belair.
What it means for motorists
For drivers on the coast, the nearest lower price is United Henley Beach in Henley Beach, 1.9 km from OTR Fulham, at 213.9. For cars that run on ethanol blend, United Adelaide Airport sells E10 at 197.5, the only price under 200 at any servo in this report.
This week's extra cuts have come on the inland stretch, where four brands sit within 2 km of each other. Our unleaded petrol prices page and price trends tool will show whether the 219.9 group around Fulham follows the inland sites down.
For motorists in Adelaide's western beach suburbs, the suburb matters more than the brand this week. A short drive east along Henley Beach Road saves 16.5 to 18.4 cents a litre.