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On April 18, 2008, the price of oil broke $117 per barrel after a Nigerian militant group claimed an attack on an oil pipeline. [30] Oil prices rose to a new high of $119.90 a barrel on April 22, 2008, [ 31 ] before dipping and then rising $3 on April 25, 2008, to $119.10 on the New York Mercantile Exchange after a news report that a ship ...
Oil’s historic price surge in 2008 will look like ‘child’s play’ compared with the expected copper boom by 2025, Citi says ... “Expected returns are a massive 50% to 100% by 2025,” he ...
In the United States, gasoline consumption declined by 0.4% in 2007, [20] then fell by 0.5% in the first two months of 2008 alone. [21] Record-setting oil prices in the first half of 2008 and economic weakness in the second half of the year prompted a 1.2 Mbbl (190,000 m 3)/day contraction in US consumption of petroleum products, representing 5 ...
In the middle of the financial crisis of 2007–2008, the price of oil underwent a significant decrease after the record peak of US$147.27 it reached on 11 July 2008. On 23 December 2008, WTI crude oil spot price fell to US$30.28 a barrel, the lowest since the financial crisis of 2007–2008 began. The price sharply rebounded after the crisis ...
In the process of creating Image:Oil Prices 1861 2007.svg, I realized what an incredible wealth of information is available on the Energy Information Administration's web site. The 1861–2007 graph uses yearly averages, and I couldn't think of a really satisfying way to incorporate the price jumps of the past couple of months.
The price of crude oil is heading for its first quarterly drop since 2008 as concerns about the pace of the economic recovery dampen demand. Crude prices have slipped 9 percent in the last three ...
11:11, 11 November 2008: 774 × 527 (52 KB) 84user {{Information |Description=United States oil price from 1999 to 2008 October 17; weekly prices in United States dollars per barrel on the vertical scale, with year markers on the horizontal scale. Related charts: [[Image:World oil price in dollars from 19
The chart currently uses yearly averages; since 2008's not over yet, we don't have an average price for this year. I have to integrate it in a way that doesn't hurt the accuracy of the graph. I have put further thought into how the EIA's 1861–1999 spreadsheet is constructed, with the intention of possibly improving it.