ExxonMobil's UK forecourt brand, largely dealer-operated, with Nectar points and Synergy fuels.
Daily network average, petrol and diesel
Esso is ExxonMobil's retail brand in the UK, and today it is overwhelmingly a supply-and-brand business rather than an operating one: the large majority of Esso forecourts are run by dealers, by Motor Fuel Group or by Rontec, who buy the fuel and licence the sign.
That structure explains the price spread. Because the operator sets the price rather than ExxonMobil, two Esso sites a few miles apart can differ by ten pence a litre depending on who runs them and what they are competing against. The brand tells you what is in the tank, not what it costs.
Esso switched its loyalty tie from Tesco Clubcard to Nectar in 2020. Synergy is the standard fuel formulation and Synergy Supreme+ the 99-octane premium grade.
Sites by UK region, with the local median price
Coverage explains a good deal of what looks like brand pricing. Fuel is cheaper in some regions than others whatever the sign says, so a chain weighted towards the cheaper ones shows a lower national average without any of its sites pricing unusually.
Esso is averaging £1.72 a litre for E10 petrol across 1449 UK forecourts — £94.55 for a 55-litre tank. The cheapest Esso forecourt in the country is currently £1.55.
Esso is 2.0p above the UK median of £1.70, which places it 21st of 29 ranked brands. Above the supermarkets on average, but with a wide spread — the operator behind the sign sets the price.
1450 Esso forecourts are in our data, of which 1449 are currently quoting a price, spread across 11 of the twelve UK regions.
Yes — Nectar points at participating sites. Loyalty shifts the effective price by an amount that depends on how much you redeem rather than how much you fill, so it is worth counting only if you actually use it.
Yes — Synergy Supreme+. It is averaging £1.89 a litre, 17.2p above standard E10. Whether a higher-octane grade does anything for your car is a question for the handbook, not the advertising: most engines are tuned for 95 RON and gain nothing from 97 or 99.
Search your postcode on FuelSignal and filter by brand. Prices come from the government Fuel Finder feed, which has required every UK forecourt to report a change within thirty minutes since February 2026, so what you see is what is on the sign.
21st cheapest of 29 ranked brands
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