Brent crude trades near $94.50 per barrel on Thursday

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Brent crude oil, extracted from the North Sea, is trading on Thursday around $94.50 per barrel, marking a 0.2% increase in price.

Since 2007, the benchmark Brent crude has been a blend of several grades produced at offshore fields such as Brent, Forties, Oseberg, and Ekofisk, located between the coasts of Norway and the UK.

The price difference between these Brent grades and Urals crude typically ranges from $8 to $15 per barrel.

The main trading platforms for oil are international commodity exchanges like NYMEX (WTI, USA) and ICE (Brent, Europe), as well as regional exchanges such as SPbMICEX (Urals, Russia) and SGX (Asia).

Trading takes place through futures and spot contracts linked to benchmark crude grades: American WTI, European Brent, and Asian Dubai/Oman, which shape the global pricing landscape.

This overview was presented by Alexey Grishchenko, Ph.D., Professor of the Department of Operational and Sectoral Management at the Faculty of "Higher School of Management" of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.