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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 ...
U.S. Energy Information Administration: World Crude Oil Prices Archived 2008-11-10 at the Wayback Machine; BP Crude Grades; Intertek: Crude Oil Grades and Types; MeGlobalOil: Carriage of Heavy Grade Oil; Statoil.com: Crude oil assays; EnergyIntel.com: The Crude Oils and their Key Characteristics; Capline system crude oil properties and quality ...
Indications of a world oil glut lead to a rapid decline in world oil prices early in 1982. OPEC appears to lose control over world oil prices. March: Damascus closes Iraq's 400,000 bbl/d (64,000 m 3 /d) trans-Syrian oil export pipeline to show support for Iran. March 11: U.S. boycotts Libyan crude. May 24:Iran recaptures Khorramshahr.
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In June 2005, crude oil prices broke the psychological barrier of $60 per barrel. From 2005 onwards, the price elasticity of the crude oil market changed significantly. Before 2005 a small increase in oil price lead to an noticeable expansion of the production volume. Later price rises let the production grow only by small numbers.
After four days of higher prices, oil dropped significantly October 19 and rose slightly the next day, with WTI reaching $51.41 and Brent at $57.31. U.S. oil inventories were down 15% since March and lower than in 2016 due to higher exports resulting from WTI being significantly lower than Brent.
After Saudi Arabia promised further production cuts, WTI reached $51.28 on January 7 and Brent climbed as high as $54.90, the highest since before COVID-19. [36] On January 14, a weaker dollar and an expected COVID-19 relief package helped oil move slightly higher, with WTI at $53.57 and Brent at $56.42, though Europe was experiencing more lockdowns and China had a higher number of COVID-19 ...
Oil fell more than 2 percent in the third week of December with Brent finishing at $72.57 and WTI at $69.12 due to concerns about whether Chinese demand was expected to increase. [85] At Christmas, gas was $3.04, four cents less than a year earlier, and one of the lowest prices since the COVID-19 pandemic. [86]