Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Chilean wholesale gasoline prices will rise this week, state-owned oil-refiner Empresa Nacional del Petroleo said today in an e-mail.

The price of 97-octane gasoline will rise 1.9 percent and 93-octane will rise 0.9 percent, Enap, as the company is known, reported.

--Editor: James Attwood.

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