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The average price of WTI crude oil was $57 per barrel in 2019 compared to $64 in 2018. [91] On 20 April 2020, WTI Crude futures contracts dropped below $0 for the first time in history, [110] and the following day Brent Crude fell below $20 per barrel.
The 1980s oil glut was a significant surplus of crude oil caused by falling demand following the 1970s energy crisis. The world price of oil had peaked in 1980 at over US$35 per barrel (equivalent to $129 per barrel in 2023 dollars, when adjusted for inflation); it fell in 1986 from $27 to below $10 ($75 to $28 in 2023 dollars). [ 2 ][ 3 ] The ...
May: Saudi Arabia supports a crude oil price hike during a late-month OPEC meeting. NYMEX Futures prices exceed $22 per barrel. Oct: OPEC production reaches highest level in more than a decade at 25.25 Mbbl/d (4,014,000 m 3 /d). December: U.S.A., Mexico, and Canada sign the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
In 2008, oil prices rose briefly, to as high as $145 per barrel, [25] and U.S. gasoline prices jumped from $1.37 to $2.37 per gallon in 2005, [26] causing a search for alternate sources, and by 2012, less than half the US oil consumption was imported. However, as of January 2015, the price of oil has decreased to around $50 per barrel. [27]
The Jimmy Carter administration began a phased deregulation of oil prices on April 5, 1979, when the average price of crude oil was US$15.85 per barrel ($100/m 3). Starting with the Iranian revolution, the price of crude oil rose to $39.50 per barrel ($248/m 3) over the next 12 months (its all-time highest real price until March 3, 2008). [11]
However, that same day, West Texas Intermediate crude fell below $100 a barrel, the lowest since March 16. [7] This came after crude oil for June delivery reached $114.83 on May 2, the highest since September 2008, before closing at $97.18 on May 6, a day after dropping 9%, the most dramatic single-day drop in over two years.
The price of oil quadrupled by 1974 from US$3 to nearly US$12 per 42 gallon barrel ($75 per cubic meter), equivalent in 2018 dollars to a price rise from $17 to $61 per barrel. [4] Saudi Arabia had 25% of the world's oil, but only 4% of the oil used in the United States in 1973 came from the kingdom. [ 72 ]
The 1990 oil price shock occurred in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, [1] Saddam Hussein's second invasion of a fellow OPEC member. Lasting only nine months, the price spike was less extreme and of shorter duration than the previous oil crises of 1973–1974 and 1979–1980, but the spike still contributed to the recession of the early 1990s in the United States. [2]