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Crude Oil Prices - 70 Year Historical Chart. Interactive charts of West Texas Intermediate (WTI or NYMEX) crude oil prices per barrel back to 1946. The price of oil shown is adjusted for inflation using the headline CPI and is shown by default on a logarithmic scale.
- 10 Year Daily Chart
WTI Crude Oil Prices - 10 Year Daily Chart. Interactive...
- Crude Oil vs Gasoline Prices
This interactive chart compares the monthly price...
- Saudi Arabia Crude Oil Production
Interactive chart showing the monthly level of Saudi Arabia...
- Crude Oil Prices Today - Live Chart
Live interactive chart of West Texas Intermediate (WTI or...
- Oil Prices vs Natural Gas
This interactive chart compares the price performance of...
- 10 Year Daily Chart
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- Creation of A Protected Market
- Oil Crises of The 1970s
- Government Response to Oil Crises
Price controlsRestrictions that a government sets on the price of specific goods. Price controls are usually a short-term measure to control the affordability of the goods.
The oil industry in Canada has been subject to government regulation for nearly its entire existence. The Leduc discovery of 1947 showed — for the first time — the extent and value of Western Canadian oil and gas resources. The Canadian oil and gas industry grew rapidly from 1947 to 1973. During that time, the international price of oil was low and...
The federal government created the National Energy Board in 1959 and the National Oil Policy in 1961 to address these supply problems. The solution was that Quebec and the Atlantic provinces would continue to import oil by ship from the cheapest foreign sources, while all of Canada west of the Ottawa Valley would get its oil and gas from Alberta, S...
The federal government introduced price controls one month before the Oil Embargo of October 1973. In response to American support of Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries banned oil sales to the United States and its allies. This caused both a rapid price increase and a global oil shortage. The g...
The government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau responded to the oilcrisis of 1973–74 in several ways. First, it set limits on the price that consumers could be charged for oil. Second, it began building a plant to extract synthetic oil from oil sands. This was still a relatively new and expensive process. Recognizing the potential value of this form of o...
A look at the changing oil prices over more than 150 years - and the factors driving the change.
May 4, 2022 · The real price of oil reached a seven year high amid the Russia-Ukraine war. How have other major events impacted historical oil prices?
Apr 13, 2022 · Oil Prices by Year: Average, High, Low, and Events . The following chart shows the nominal value for imported crude oil according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The first column shows the average annual price. It's followed by the monthly high and low oil prices for that year.
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Nov 23, 2022 · By 2020, with annual average WTI 4 prices at US$40 per barrel, Canadian oil and gas investment fell to $24 billion, a level not seen since 2002. Investment in 2020 was down more than two-thirds from 2014’s peak, when WTI prices averaged US$90 per barrel.
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1. West Texas Intermediate (WTI); New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). Source (s): Natural Resources Canada, crude oil prices. Date modified: 2014-12-04.
