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Oil traders, Houston, 2009 Nominal price of oil from 1861 to 2020 from Our World in Data. The price of oil, or the oil price, generally refers to the spot price of a barrel (159 litres) of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Crude, Dubai Crude, OPEC Reference Basket, Tapis crude, Bonny Light, Urals oil ...
Medium term Brent oil prices since May 1987 New York Mercantile Exchange prices for West Texas Intermediate since 2000, monthly overlaid on daily prices to show the variation Oil prices for Brent in US$ (blue) and Euro (red) From the mid-1980s to September 2003, the inflation adjusted price of a barrel of crude oil on NYMEX was generally under ...
January 21: The near-month crude oil futures price on the New York Mercantile Exchange settles at $34.61 per barrel, the highest price since November 29, 2000. The market is experiencing a variety of higher price pressures, including the strike in Venezuela, fears of a conflict in Iraq, a cold winter in the United States, and low commercial oil ...
x-axis: year, begins with 2000 y-axis: price of crude oil in dollars per barrel, West Texas Intermediate benchmark full year range: File:Crude oil price WTI EIA.svg Date
The volatility of crude oil prices after the US oil price decontrol led to the development of the NYMEX WTI Light Sweet Crude Oil futures contract in 1983. [2] The NYMEX Crude Oil contract trades under the symbol CL on the New York Mercantile Exchange, now part of Chicago Mercantile Exchange. [2]
The price of oil rose to $77 per barrel on 24 June 2010 as a cyclone begins to form in the south western Caribbean. [55] The price for July 2010 was about $84–$90 per barrel of crude oil. Oil prices ended the year at $101.80, falling to $100.01 per barrel on 30 and 31 January 2011.
A benchmark crude or marker crude is a crude oil that serves as a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil. There are three primary benchmarks, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Blend , and Dubai Crude .
However, as of January 2015, the price of oil has decreased to around $50 per barrel. [27] As of September 2021, the price per barrel of crude oil was $69.06. [28] Oil futures dropped on 5 August 2024, due to U.S. recession fears and concerns about Chinese demand, with Brent and WTI falling over 1%.