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Wholesale Prices of Petroleum Fuels in Mombasa.

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What fuel cost wholesale in Mombasa each December, for the seven years to 2024. 21 observations across three products, in shillings a tonne. Small, and the most important column in it is the one saying which figures are real.

Kenya's Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority used to publish a capped maximum wholesale price, and for 2018 through 2021 that cap is what this table prints. From 2022 it stopped. KNBS's own footnote explains: "Applicable maximum wholesale prices not published. EPRA did not cap the wholesale price in 2022 as a result of the stabilisation of the retail pump prices. Assumed wholesale price is pump price less KSh 8.19 per litre."

So three of the seven years are not observations. They are the retail pump price less a constant, which means they carry no information the retail price series does not already have, and treating them as independent evidence of what wholesalers charged would be wrong. The basis column says which is which for every row, and the status column carries KNBS's footnote verbatim.

The only marker of any of this in the source is a digit welded onto the year label: the header prints 20222, 20232 and 20242 rather than 2022, 2023 and 2024, and the trailing 2 is a reference to that footnote. The corruption spreads forward one column an edition, which is what a policy change looks like rather than a typo.

Motor spirit rose from 109,340 shillings a tonne in 2018 to 165,378 in 2024. Light diesel oil peaked at 172,390 in 2023 and fell to 143,031 in 2024, the only product to end the period below its own peak by a wide margin.

Product capitalisation drifts between editions, "Motor Spirit (Premium)" in the 2023 and 2024 editions against "Motor spirit (premium)" in the 2025 one. Editions are matched on a casefolded key so one product does not become two series, and the newest edition's spelling is published. This is the one place in this chapter where a label is normalised, and it is done because the label is a join key.

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Kenya stopped capping wholesale fuel prices in 2022, and every figure published since is derived from the pump price rather than observed.

Wholesale prices of petroleum fuels in Mombasa each December · KSh per tonne · 2018 to 2024

SOURCE: Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) · via Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Wholesale Prices of Petroleum Fuels in Mombasa (annual) · Updated 2026-08-18
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imibare contributors. (2026). Wholesale Prices of Petroleum Fuels in Mombasa [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-18. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.fuel-prices-wholesale.annual