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Commercial form of oil (could be raw or slightly processed to match the trade specifications).


Below are the popular examples of market crudes which set up the oil price benchmarks:

Synthetic crude oilLight crude oilMedium crude oilHeavy crude oil
Syncrude Sweet Blend (API 30.5 – 33.6)

Brent crude oil (API 38.06) 

West Texas Intermediate (API 39.6)

Siberian Light (API 35 – 36)

Urals (API 31.7)

Dubai Crude (API 31.0)

Pennsylvania Grade Crude OilMaya (API 21.8)


See List of crude oil products for the more detailed list.


See also


Natural Science / Physics / Chemistry / Chemical Substance

Petroleum Industry / Upstream / Subsurface E&P Disciplines / Petroleum Geology / Petroleum fluids

[ List of crude oil products ]