Shell and BP drop petrol prices

Two major oil companies have dropped their petrol prices by three cents and diesel prices by two cents a litre today.

At BP and Shell service stations, the price of unleaded 91 fell to $1.759 a litre, and the price of diesel fell to $1.189.

The price of 95 fell to $183.9 at BP and $1.829 at Shell.

The was no change in price at Mobil stations.

Greenstone Energy, which owns the Shell stations, said that a drop in the international product was behind the decrease.

- NZPA