The barrel of oil of OPEC sticks to higher $66 Price oil “baskets” OPEC (OPEC Reference Basket of crudes) went down almost on poldollara, but continues to remain higher than mark in 66 dollars, to which did not rise more than seven months, ensues from the report of oil cartel. On being in Junes, 3 cost oil "baskets" went down on 0,46 dollar and 66,41 made dollar for a barrel against a 66,87 dollar in a previous point-of-sale day, RIA Novosti reports.It is the highest index from October, 15, 2008, when barrel of oil of OPEC
68,28 costed a dollar.Record of price "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 – 45,78 dollar for a barrel, in April – 50,2 dollar for a barrel.In March, 2008 a basket was extended to 12 sorts of oil due to Ecuador. Thus, presently the cost of basket of OPEC is determined as a middle arithmetic index
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).
