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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 ...
English: The chart in the figure shows the change in WTI oil prices between 2013 and 2023 (data availability by CNBC). The x-axis of the graph shows dots of different colours for each year, representing the start price, end price, and the highest and lowest prices for each year. y-axis represents the price of oil in US dollars per barrel.
Oil rose for the first week of 2024 due to the Israel-Hamas War threatening to become a larger conflict, and positive U.S. economic news. Brent finished at $78.76 and WTI at $73.81. [49] Continuing Houthi attacks disrupted oil trading and increased costs, driving up oil prices. Brent finished January at $80.55 and WTI at $75.85. [50]
A barrel that today costs $100 is the equivalent, in real dollars, to a $71 barrel in 2010 and a $56 barrel in 2000. ... this lack of new oil production as well as production cuts from the world ...
Brent , the international benchmark price, also slipped 4.6% to close at $77.18 per barrel after touching its highest levels since August during the prior session.
Using benchmarks makes referencing types of oil easier for sellers and buyers. There is always a spread between WTI, Brent and other blends due to the relative volatility (high API gravity is more valuable), sweetness/sourness (low sulfur is more valuable) and transportation cost. This is the price that controls world oil market price.
Meanwhile, the International Energy Agency said world oil demand was on track to expand just shy of 900,000 barrels per day, and almost 1 million barrels per day in 2025, "marking a sharp slowdown ...
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