Talk:Brent Crude

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I added the following: The symbol for brent crude is SC. It is traded on the NYMEX which is a London exchange. One contract equals 1,000 barrels. Contracts are quoted in US dollars. Therefore each point lost or gained equals $1,000. --Michael D. Wolok


 * Hi Michael,
 * This doesn't make sense. What is a point?  Are you referring to a tick?  Because the tick size is $00.01 which means that every point lost or gained equals $10 per contract.


 * I don't know the date of this post as neither poster has signed. As clarification for future readers; A point is the smallest number to the left of the decimal (in this case $1), a tick is the smallest integer the price can move by after the decimal point (in this case $0.01) and a bip/bps/basis point is 1/100th of a %. Therefore both commentators above are correct. I have removed the part about points/ticks being changes in value as most Wikipedia readers will not understand points/ticks and they should be able to calculate that 1000*.01/1 = $10 and $1000 respectively.Ryanharmany (talk) 00:35, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

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Merge proposal
I propose merge Brent Index as it is an interrelated topic. Both articles needs some work and merging will help to create more comprehensive article. Beagel (talk) 10:52, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Merger completed. Beagel (talk) 07:27, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Possible explanation for the divergence of Brent Crude and WTI prices from 2010
It is interesting to observe that the price divergence between Brent Crude and WTI began shortly after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Is there a connection between these two two events? Was the increased price differential used, or perhaps artificially created within a dysfunctional market, to help offset the costs of Deepwater Horizon event or was this just a very fortuitous coincidence? If the fuel market in the UK was not so dysfunctional, one would have expected that imports of either finished product (petrol, diesel etc), WTI or other crude would have minimised the price differential between Brent Crude and WTI but none of these things happened to a sufficient extent and the price differential was over 25% at times. In a free and properly functioning market it is difficult to believe that such a large price differential could have existed for so long so the logical conclusion is that the market was dysfunctional. (I have not included this in the article but am putting it in the Editing Talk" section for review and discussion by others.)


 * No mystery or dysfunctional market. The only dysfunction is the lack of pipeline capacity to allow the rapidly increasing production in the interior of North America (Canadian oil sands, Bakken, Niobrara, and others) where WTI is priced, to reach the coast and the larger world market. The large volume of excess production from inland North America has created a glut there, and driven down WTI versus Brent.  See analysis by US Energy Information Administration: .  I will have to add a note to the article documenting this.  Plazak (talk) 14:17, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Assumption of USD
Although Brent Crude appears to be a European product, prices are states in US dollars, without qualifying them AS USD. If this is a component of "Brent Crude" fine, but shouldn't it be stated up front? In the lead as well as the article?

The alternative is to change to Euros or use USD/US$ with each price. Student7 (talk) 21:16, 7 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Brent is traded in USD, not GBP nor EUR. Thus the prices should be listed in USD. https://www.theice.com/products/219/Brent-Crude-Futures https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/energy/crude-oil/brent-crude-oil-last-day_contract_specifications.html Alcibiades979 (talk) 12:53, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

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Sullom Voe Terminal
Contracts appear to be for delivery to Sullom Voe Terminal but I need to find a source.©Geni (talk) 08:02, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
 * After a lot of digging I don't think this is the case. I think Sullom Voe Terminal is the landing terminal for what's left of the original Brent crude oil grades, which is a tiny amount. Any of the other BFOET oil grades can also theoretically be the underlay Brent contract price. If we're talking about ICE Futures Contracts, the delivery specifically says "EFP or settle to the Brent Index." I'm not 100% sure how EFP works at this point, but from the examples I've seen parties agreeing to EFP can take delivery/deliver wherever they can do so without incurring a location premium or a discount, which probably implies anywhere in the North Sea or even Northern Europe. If we're talking about forward contracts it's probably the same thing. Eric.c.zhang (talk) 03:49, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Brent Oil or WTI?
This space is for friendly discussions of comparing and contrasting Brent Oil and WTI (West Texas Intermediate). 107.77.224.216 (talk) 20:07, 30 April 2022 (UTC)