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#ECOC2611635AMay 2026 refinery price factors for gasoline and diesel in Guadeloupe, Guyana and Martinique

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This measure updates the pricing factors used to set refinery exit prices for gasoline and diesel in Guadeloupe, Guyana and Martinique for May 2026. It changes the commercial coefficients for unleaded gasoline and road and non-road diesel, while leaving other products unchanged. It also spreads a €1,593,722.17 balancing adjustment over the seven following months of 2026, which affects how monthly retail pricing is smoothed for fuel distributors and the SARA refinery system in these territories.

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Key Changes

  • Sets May 2026 commercial coefficients for unleaded gasoline at 0.934835 and for road and non-road diesel at 1.089623 in Guadeloupe, Guyana and Martinique.
  • Keeps the coefficients for other fuel products unchanged.
  • Resets the May 2026 balancing adjustment to zero and spreads €1,593,722.17 evenly across the next seven months of 2026.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Fuel pricing teams in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and Martinique must apply the May 2026 commerciality coefficients of 0.934835 for unleaded gasoline and 1.089623 for road and non-road diesel when determining refinery gate prices; the coefficients for other products remain unchanged.

fuel pricing teamsrefinery gate pricing operatorsdistributors of gasoline and diesel
For the month of May 2026
operational
high

For May 2026, distributors and pricing actors in Guadeloupe, Guyana, and Martinique must use the updated commercial coefficients for refinery exit price determination: 0.934835 for unleaded gasoline and 1.089623 for road and non-road diesel; coefficients for other products remain unchanged.

fuel distributorsfuel pricing operatorsSARA refinery system
During May 2026 pricing calculations
operational
medium

Any turnover differences for SARA resulting from the May 2026 coefficient change must be taken into account under the correction mechanism provided in Article 3(III) of the amended 5 February 2014 order.

SARA refinery operatorprice-setting authority
When calculating May 2026 refinery exit prices and related corrections
operational
medium

Where the change in coefficients creates revenue differences for SARA, those differences must be taken into account under the correction mechanism provided in Article 3(III) of the amended 5 February 2014 order.

SARArefinery accounting teamspricing compliance teams
Ongoing for May 2026 pricing calculations
operational
high

For May 2026, the balancing fraction of the equilibrium turnover correction is set to zero euros, and the corresponding amount of €1,593,722.17 must be spread equally over the seven following months of 2026, in addition to the monthly one-twelfth correction normally applied.

price-setting authoritySARA refinery operator
Over the seven months following May 2026
operational

Affected Parties

Fuel distributors in Guadeloupe, Guyana and MartiniqueSARA refinery pricing system

Tags

fuel-pricing,refinery,caribbean-territories