Oil prices fall in low-volume trade
USA Front-month WTI futures dropped USD 0.23 from the previous Thursday, settling at USD 37.87 per barrel. Brent was also down USD 0.16 to USD 37.73 per barrel.
USA reserves were down slightly in December due to reduced drilling activity, withdrawals from crude stockpiles and trading prospects brought on by the recent end of the country’s 40-year crude export ban.
WTI gained a premium over Brent last week as the global market remained oversupplied. <a href=’https://theenergyyear.com/companies-institutions/opec/’>OPEC members and big players such as Russia produce between 500,000 bpd and 2 million bpd in excess, according to US Energy Information Administration data.
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