Oil bargains higher $68 for a barrel To 9.00 msk the July futures on American easy oil grew on Asiatic auctions on 12 cents – to 68,67 dollar for a barrel. The American institute of oil (API) reported on Tuesday, that the supplies of oil on a past week had grown by short on 828 thousands of barrels, although experts predicted diminishing on everything 1,4 million barrels, reports Reuters.