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Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Both Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate are light and sweet, making them ideal for refining into gasoline.
Brent Crude is more ubiquitous, and most oil is priced using Brent Crude as the benchmark, akin to two-thirds of all oil pricing. In contrast, West Texas Intermediate is produced in landlocked areas, making transportation costs more onerous.
A surge of WTI production has led many traders to consider it an important pricing benchmark vs. Brent, if not even close to the total production of the latter. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC controls most of the oil production and distribution, often dictating costs for not only oil suppliers but countries as well. It is also slightly "sweeter" and "lighter" than Brent. Offshore oil rigs, despite being in the news more often, most famously with the BP oil leak of , are heavily traded as barometers of domestic oil market health.
There has been a trend, due to advancements in oil drilling and fracking, of West Texas Intermediate becoming cheaper than Brent Crude oil. The price of oil is a major factor in the overall health of the energy sector and is one of the most heavily traded commodities as it is influenced by almost every global, macro event.
Another factor that can lead to significant differences between Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate is geopolitical trouble. West Texas Intermediate is less affected because it is based in landlocked areas in the United States.
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