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14 January 15:40
On the Situation in the Global Oil Market
14:10; 14 January 2026 year
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Oil futures are trading at $65 per barrel.
The benchmark North Sea crude oil grade, BRENT, is trading on Wednesday at $60.09 per barrel, with a price increase of 0.1%.
Russian export-grade oil URALS, which includes heavy sulfurous oil from the Urals-Volga region and light Western Siberian oil of the SIBERIAN LIGHT grade, is trading (futures contracts) at $55.88 per barrel.
The discount in price between these grades, BRENT and URALS, is $8-15 per barrel.
The main trading platforms for oil are international commodity exchanges such as NYMEX (WTI, USA) and ICE (Brent, Europe), as well as regional exchanges like SPIMEx (Urals, Russia) and SGX (Asia).
Trading is conducted through futures and spot contracts linked to benchmark oil grades: American WTI, European Brent, and Asian Dubai/Oman, which form the global pricing space.
The review was presented by Yulia Grishchenko, a member of the Expert Council on Listing of the Moscow Exchange, Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Department of Financial and Investment Management at the Faculty of "Higher School of Management" of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.
