Nearest oil futures prices surge by 3.58% - 3.75% on major world trading floors

31.07.08 15:32
/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, July 31, 08/ - By the results of trades of July 30 this year: - on NYMEX (New York) the price of Light Sweet Crude Oil mixture with delivery in September 2008 increased by 3.75 % to $126.77 per barrel; - on ICE (London) price of September Brent Forties Oseburg futures grew by 3.58 % to $127.10 per barrel Oil grew after the USA Ministry of Energy report saying oil reserves in the country decreased by 100 th. barrels to 295.2 m. barrels in a week, petrol supplies of commodities - by 3.5 m. barrels, supplies of distillate (including residual fuel oil and aviation fuel) grew by 2.4 m. barrels. Earlier, analysts expected oil reserves in USA to decrease by 1.3 m. barrels, petrol reserves to grow by 400 th. and distillate - by 1.8 m. barrels last week. The data of exchanges, published in various information systems, have been used to create this message. [2008-07-31]