On September 1, 2026, N.V. Energiebedrijven Suriname (EBS), Suriname’s national energy utility, rolled out the latest quarterly scheduled adjustment to domestic propane cooking gas tariffs, implementing targeted price increases that exclusively affect two common cylinder formats, the company confirmed in an official announcement.
Under the new pricing structure, the cost of a 28-pound propane cylinder will rise from 508 Surinamese dollars (SRD) to SRD 535. Per the current ministerial decree governing the tariff adjustment program, this marks the final scheduled price increase for this cylinder size. For the 14-kilogram composite cylinder, the tariff will climb from SRD 530 to SRD 556.50, with one additional incremental adjustment set to take effect on December 1, 2026 before pricing reaches its final level.
These incremental price hikes are a core component of a national policy launched in 2023 to phase out long-standing government subsidies on cooking gas. The framework for the gradual subsidy drawdown was jointly agreed and formalized in August 2023 by Suriname’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation (EZOTI) and the Ministry of Natural Resources (NH), and was codified in Ministerial Decree No. 1099/23 dated August 31, 2023.
The Surinamese government designed the phased tariff adjustment approach to gradually align domestic cooking gas prices with the actual market-based cost of production and distribution, rather than relying on large one-off price shocks that would disproportionately impact household budgets. According to EBS, this transition is a critical step toward securing a long-term sustainable, uninterrupted, and reliable supply of cooking gas for consumers across the country.
Not all propane products will see further price increases under the current regulatory scheme, EBS emphasized. All other gas products have already reached their final tariff levels under the subsidy phase-out program, and no additional hikes are planned for these SKUs for the remainder of the current regulatory framework. The products with locked-in final pricing are: 20-pound cylinders at SRD 369.24, 40-pound cylinders at SRD 699.98, bulk gas at SRD 18.90 per liter, 10-kilogram composite cylinders at SRD 400, and 22-kilogram composite cylinders at SRD 880.