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WTI Crude •12 hours | 55.76 | +0.34 | +0.61% |
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Brent Crude •12 hours | 62.47 | +0.54 | +0.87% |
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Natural Gas •12 hours | 2.228 | -0.035 | -1.55% |
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Mars US •12 hours | 61.23 | +0.33 | +0.54% |
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Opec Basket •2 days | 63.10 | -1.50 | -2.32% |
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Urals •1 day | 59.65 | -1.75 | -2.85% |
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Louisiana Light •2 days | 60.83 | -1.42 | -2.28% |
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Marine •1 day | 61.68 | -0.46 | -0.74% |
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Murban •1 day | 63.44 | -0.46 | -0.72% |
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Iran Heavy •1 day | 53.28 | +0.54 | +1.02% |
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Basra Light •1 day | 64.58 | +0.69 | +1.08% |
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Saharan Blend •1 day | 61.08 | +0.37 | +0.61% |
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Bonny Light •1 day | 62.98 | +0.60 | +0.96% |
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Canadian Crude Index •11 hours | 38.56 | +0.00 | +0.00% |
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Western Canadian Select •2 days | 46.07 | -1.36 | -2.87% |
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Canadian Condensate •33 days | 51.07 | -1.36 | -2.59% |
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Premium Synthetic •2 days | 55.92 | -1.36 | -2.37% |
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Sweet Crude •2 days | 51.62 | -1.36 | -2.57% |
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Peace Sour •2 days | 50.42 | -1.36 | -2.63% |
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Louisiana Light •2 days | 60.83 | -1.42 | -2.28% |
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Domestic Swt. @ Cushing •1 day | 52.00 | +0.25 | +0.48% |
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Giddings •1 day | 45.75 | +0.25 | +0.55% |
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ANS West Coast •3 days | 64.56 | -0.83 | -1.27% |
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West Texas Sour •2 days | 49.25 | -1.48 | -2.92% |
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Eagle Ford •2 days | 53.20 | -1.48 | -2.71% |
Kurt Cobb
Kurt Cobb is a freelance writer and communications consultant who writes frequently about energy and environment. His work has also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Resilience, Le Monde Diplomatique, TalkMarkets, Investing.com, Business Insider and many other places. He is the author of an oil-themed novel entitled Prelude and has a widely followed blog called Resource Insights. He is currently a fellow of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions.
Latest articles from Kurt
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The Battle Against Climate Change: Does the World Need Saving?
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Helium: Abundant but Unavailable
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US Energy Independence: The Numbers Don’t Add Up
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How Our Inability to Calculate Risk Opened the Doors for Fukushima
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Fossil Fuel Demand is too High to be Controlled
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Shell Abandons 800 Billion Barrel Deposit, Beaten by the Regions Geology
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The Energy Future may Rely on US not THEM
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Tight Global Oil Supplies Turn Syria into an International Problem
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Can the US Export its Way to Energy Independence?
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Oil Prices and Boiling Frogs – Public Beginning to accept High Prices
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On its Own Obama’s Climate Plan will Not Save the World
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Why Israel may Rue the Decision to Export Limited Natural Gas Reserves
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Has the Shale Gas Boom Already Ended?
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Marketing has Created an Overinflated Demand for Energy in the West
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The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything
In Douglas Adams' science fiction series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a computer dubbed Deep Thought discovers the "answer to the ultimate question of…
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How Reliable is the IEA’s Oil Market Forecast?
The famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr once humorously observed, "Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future." And so, as the world considers yet another…
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How Renewable Energy will Benefit from US Natural Gas Exports
U.S.-based industries and utilities that consume a lot of natural gas have been trying to figure out just how to respond to proposals in Congress…
