Articles Tagged "brent"

Asia Crude India has purchased 1 bbls Sept Zarzaitine

India’s leading state-owned refiner, Indian Oil Corp, has bought 1.0 million barrels of Tunisia’s Zarzaitine crude in its fourth tender to buy September-loading sweet crude, trade sources said. IOC purchased the cargo from Algerian state-owned Sonatrach at a premium of 85 to 90 cents to dated Brent. For full story, click here

Oil Price Peaks And Slides

Oil prices vaulted 9 per cent in NY Thursday, in tandem with a powerful stocks rally, as investors cheered G20 agreements to combat the global downturn and an easing of US accounting rules. On Friday, oil prices settled above $52 a barrel, slightly lower on the day after a report that US unemployment in March soared to a 25-year high. But optimism that the economy will soon turn around curtailed losses.