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Brent Crude facts for kids

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Brent crude oil map
Location of the Brent oil platform in the North Sea
Brent Spot monthly
Monthly average Brent spot prices since May 1987

Brent Crude is a major trading classification of crude oil. It is one of the two main benchmark prices for purchases of oil worldwide, the other being West Texas Intermediate. This is described as light because of its low density, and sweet because of its low sulphur content.

Images for kids

  • Oil Platform in mist, Cromarty Firth near Rosskeen - geograph.org.uk - 851812

    Oil platform in the North Sea

  • Crude oil prices in dollar and euro

    Brent crude oil prices (in dollars and euros)

  • North Sea Oil IMG 0569 Ekofisk

    Oil from Ekofisk

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