Oil futures on major world trading floors after trades on May 20

/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, May 21, 09/ - By results of trades on May 20, 2009 oil futures made: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Change (in %) for ---------------------------- since since Name Exchange 20.05.09 a day a month 2009 2008 ------------- ---------------- -------- ----- ------- ----- ----- Brent Forties Oseburg* ICE (London) 60.59 +2.8 +21.5 +29.2 -38.1 Light Sweet Crude Oil** NYMEX (New York) 62.04 +4.0 +35.2 +33.9 -37.7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *July future price is considered **June future price is considered Oil prices rose sharply after a publication of the weekly report of the Department of Energy of the USA about oil and petrochemical products reserves in the country. According to the report, oil reserves declined by 2.1 million barrels to 368.5 million barrels, petrol reserves - by 4.3 million barrels to 203.9 million barrels, distillates rose by 0.7 million barrels to 148.1 million barrels. Formerly, analysts predicted decline in oil reserves by 1.2 million, petrol - by 1.7 million. Exchanges' data published in various information systems have been used to create this message. [2009-05-21]