Weekly Close: Oil Holds Steady at $96 Per Barrel

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Weekly Close: Oil Holds Steady at $96 per Barrel

Brent crude oil (the benchmark North Sea oil) is trading at $96 per barrel on Friday, with prices up by 0.3%.

Russian Urals blend (a mixture of heavy Urals-Volga and light West Siberian Siberian Light crude) is valued at $76 per barrel.

The price difference between Brent and Urals crude typically ranges from $10 to $20 per barrel and is subject to high volatility.

Major trading platforms for oil include international commodity exchanges such as NYMEX (WTI, USA) and ICE (Brent, Europe), as well as regional exchanges like SPIMES (Urals, Russia) and SGX (Asia).

Trading is conducted through futures and spot contracts linked to benchmark crude grades: American WTI, European Brent, and Asian Dubai/Oman, which together form the global pricing landscape.

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