Demostenes Floros | abo.net
The moderate recovery in oil barrel prices that took place during the last week in June was caused by a fall in USA oil and petrol reserves, but the trend remains depressed due to other factors, including the rise of global reserves and the increase of exports by Nigeria and Libya
In June, oil prices decreased. In particular, Brent North Sea quality opened at $50.25/b and closed at $47.90/b, while West Texas Intermediate opened at $48.18/b and closed at $46.20/b. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $46.88/b, while WTI was quoting at $44.47/b in the wake of July’s first weekly data related to the U.S. production trend that shows a new rise at 9,338,000 b/d.
On June 21st, both the European and Asian benchmark and the American reference reached their 8-month low, respectively pricing $44.79/b and $42.25/b due to the following reasons:
