This is evidenced by the data of the exchange trading Bloomberg.

According to recent data, the price of a barrel of Brent oil was at 68.78 dollars per barrel. In turn, this is 0.19% higher than the closing level of previous trades.

At the same time, the price of February futures for WTI rose to $ 63.

51 per barrel, adding 0.22%.

By the way, last week Brent crude oil fell by about 1.8%. Thus, this was the maximum drop since the beginning of October 2017.

Recall, as reported by "URA-Inform", to date in the world is extracted by 118 barrels more than in 2012. In addition, in the world there is a situation of a decrease in oil production for commercial purposes, which makes it possible for OPEC to carry out a program to reduce the extraction of raw materials.