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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 ...
Oil extended gains as markets priced the supply impact of recently announced sanctions against Russia's energy market. ... Kaneva and her team expect Brent prices to average $73 for 2025.
“There’s a much much larger risk of a big price drop to $50 or $60 than there is to something like the $80+ range," Tom Kloza, OPIS global head of energy analysis told Yahoo Finance.
During the 2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war, on March 8 oil fell over 30 percent. WTI reached $31.13, down 24.6 percent, with Brent $34.36, down 24.1 percent. Both were the lowest since 2016 and the one-day decline was the largest since 1991. [8]
January 20: Six exporting countries – Abu Dhabi, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia – conclude ten days of meetings with Western oil companies. An agreement is reached to raise the posted price of crude by 8.49 percent to offset the loss in value of oil concessions attributable to the decline in value of the U.S. dollar.
US oil prices settled at $86.38 a barrel on Monday, while Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, climbed to $88.15 a barrel. Both are well below their recent highs.
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.
The average price of gasoline hit $3.86 per gallon on Thursday, according to AAA. Prices were $0.06 higher than a week ago, and $0.16 more than exactly one year ago.