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The WTI price followed a similar path as the Brent crude oil price in 2022, averaging $5/b less than the Brent crude oil price, compared with $3/b less in 2021. The Brent-WTI crude oil spread (the difference between the two prices) increased in 2022 relative to 2021 because European countries needed to replace crude oil supplies they were importing from Russia with crude oil from another source.
The price of oil shown is adjusted for inflation using the headline CPI and is shown by default on a logarithmic scale. The current month is updated on an hourly basis with today's latest value. The current price of WTI crude oil as of September 25, 2024 is $69.44 per barrel.
YearAverageclosing PriceYear OpenYear High2024$77.77$71.65$87.012023$77.64$80.26$93.842022$94.53$76.08$123.702021$68.17$47.62$84.65- Records
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The absolute peak occurred in June 2008 with the highest inflation adjusted monthly average crude oil price of $145.93 / barrel. From there we see one of the sharpest drops in history. Note that the fall from the 1979 peak took until 1986 (7 years) to fall as much (percentage wise) as it lost in only six months from 2008-2009.
In nominal terms, we see a fall from $126.33 in June 2008 to $31.04 in February 09 but by June 09 oil is back to $61.46 and by April of 2011 it was back to $102.15. Fortunately, from there it decreased down to $76.90 in September but then started increasing again. The average for the year 2011 was $87.04. 2012 was very close with the nominal averag...
During the previous peak price back in 1979 the nominal monthly average oil price peaked at $38 per barrel (although the intraday prices spiked much higher). The common price quoted is the all time high for Crude Oil prices i.e. the price that the highest barrel ever sold for. That price doesnt really have any effect on the price consumers paid. Wh...
As we can see from the chart, inflation adjusted prices were higher in 2008 than they were in either 2011 or 1980, but in 1980 the prices stair-stepped down rather than falling sharply as they did in 2008. Part of the reason for this was that 2008 prices were driven by a speculative bubble while 1979-80 prices were driven up by OPEC. Another factor...
- World oil demand is set to contract by 110 kb/d y-o-y in 4Q22, reaching 100.8 mb/d, up by 130 kb/d compared with last month’s Report. Strong gasoil use in key consuming countries outweighs weak European and Asian petrochemical deliveries.
- World oil supply fell 190 kb/d in November to 101.7 mb/d, breaking a five-month uptrend, after Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries curbed supply in line with lower OPEC+ output targets.
- Global refinery throughputs surged 2.2 mb/d in November to the highest since January 2020, resulting in sharply lower diesel and gasoline cracks and refinery margins.
- Russian oil exports increased by 270 kb/d to 8.1 mb/d, the highest since April as diesel exports rose by 300 kb/d to 1.1 mb/d. Crude oil loadings were largely unchanged m-o-m, even as shipments to the EU fell by 430 kb/d to 1.1 mb/d.
Sep 24, 2023 · Some forecasts suggest that oil prices could soon reach at least $100 US per barrel — putting even more pressure on Canadian consumers coping with high inflation.
Jan 12, 2023 · Oil prices are trading up Thursday following the release of U.S. inflation data for December, showing a continued slowdown in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) climb and an annual...
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Dec 15, 2023 · Our model estimates suggest that the second-round effects of past oil price increases have raised four-quarter headline inflation in selected advanced economies by 0.5 percentage points on average since the fourth quarter of 2022, and can be expected to boost headline inflation as far away as 2025.
