The cost of oil of OPEC approaches a level $52 for a barrel Cost oil «baskets» OPEC (OPEC Reference Basket of crudes) insignificantly rose in price and rose till about a level in 52 dollars for a barrel, an oil cartel reports. On being in April, 16 oil «basket» rose in price on 0,38 dollar - to 51,55 dollar for a barrel against a 51,17 dollar in a previous point-of-sale day.Record of price «baskets» it was set on July, 3, 2008, when a level was attained in 140,73 dollar. Middle price on results
2008 years were made by 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, RIA reports «News».v 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 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).
