The barrel of oil of OPEC sticks to higher $51 Cost oil «baskets» OPEC (OPEC Reference Basket of crudes) went down insignificantly, but remains at level higher than a 51 dollar for a barrel, ensues from the report of oil cartel. On being in April, 17 oil «basket» became cheaper on 10 cents – to 51,45 dollar for a barrel against a 51,55 dollar in a previous point-of-sale day, RIA reports «News».rekord prices «baskets» it was set on July, 3, 2008, when a level was attained in 140,73 dollar.
A middle price on results 2008 was 94,45 dollar for a barrel. In January, 2009 a middle cost of barrel of oil of OPEC was 41,52 dollar for a barrel, in February – 41,35 dollar.In March, 2008 a basket was extended to 12 sorts of oil due to Ecuador. Thus, in
present tense the cost of basket of OPEC is determined as a middle arithmetic index of physical costs of the followings sorts of oil, obtained by the countries of cartel: Saharan Blend (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Oriente (Ecuador), Iran Heavy (Iran), Basra Light (Iraq), Kuwait Export (Kuwait), Es Sider (Libya), Bonny
Light (Nigeria), Qatar Marine (Qatar), Arab Light (Saudovskaya Arabia), Murban (OAE) and BCF 17 (Venezuela).
