Sources: NPA pricing-window announcements via COMAC and Pulse Ghana / GBC, May-June 2026. Pump prices are deregulated, so retail prices vary by marketer above these floors.
Estimate the cost of a fill-up at this window's floor price.
Based on the 16-30 June 2026 NPA floor prices. Actual cost depends on the station's posted price.
Ghana runs a deregulated petroleum market. The NPA does not set a single national price; instead it publishes indicative price floors at the start of each two-week pricing window (around the 1st and the 16th of each month), and oil marketing companies set their own pump prices at or above those floors. Because Ghana imports most of its refined fuel, two things drive the price more than anything else: the world price of refined petrol and diesel, and the cedi-to-dollar exchange rate. When either rises, pump prices rise; when both ease, prices fall, as they did into the second half of June 2026.
On top of the underlying cost of the fuel itself (the ex-refinery or import-parity price), every litre carries a fixed stack of government taxes and levies and industry margins. Together these added charges make up roughly a quarter to a half of the pump price, depending on the product and how the calculation is drawn.
An illustrative breakdown of a litre of petrol at the 16-30 June 2026 floor of GH₵13.39. The product cost shifts every window with world prices and the cedi; the taxes and margins are the fixed charges layered on top.
Taxes & levies
| Energy Sector Shortfall & Debt Repayment Levy | GH₵1.95 |
|---|---|
| Road Fund Levy | GH₵0.48 |
| Special Petroleum Tax (being abolished, 2026) | GH₵0.46 |
| Energy Fund Levy | included |
| Price Stabilisation & Recovery Levy | included |
| Sanitation & Pollution Levy | included |
Margins
| Unified Petroleum Pricing Fund (UPPF) | GH₵0.90 |
|---|---|
| Primary Distribution Margin | ~GH₵0.26 |
| BOST Margin | GH₵0.12 |
| Fuel Marking Margin | GH₵0.09 |
| Marketer & dealer margins | balance |
Component values as reported in 2026 by JoyNews Research, the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD) and civil-society analyses (IMANI, COPEC, IES); aggregate share of pump price 26.5% to 51% per CBOD/COPEC. The single largest line is the Energy Sector Shortfall and Debt Repayment Levy (the "D-Levy"), at GH₵1.95/litre after the GH₵1 ESLA Amendment Act 1141 addition of July 2025.