Nearest oil futures prices surge by 0.39 % - 0.98 % on major world trading floors

/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, August 21, 08/ - By the results of trades of August 20 this year: - on NYMEX (New York) the price of Light Sweet Crude Oil mixture with delivery in September 2008 increased by 0.39 % to $114.98 per barrel; - on ICE (London) price of October Brent Forties Oseburg futures grew by 0.98 % to $114.36 per barrel Oil grew a little after the report of the US Ministry of Energy saying oil reserves in the country grew by 9.4 m. barrels for a week, with trade reserves of petrol decreasing 6.2 m. barrels. Analysts expected oil reserves to grow by 800 th. barrels, and petrol to decrease by 2.7 m. barrels. The data of exchanges, published in various information systems, have been used to create this message. [2008-08-21]