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Difference between nymex crude and brent crude
New York Mercantile Exchange Middle East crude oil futurecontract trades with prices quoted in dollars and cents per barrel ($00.00/bbl) and a contract unit of 1,000 barrels. The max/min price fluctuation rules are consistent with the Exchange's light, sweet crude oil future contract as are settlement procedures. http://www.tkfutures.com/crude_oil.htm I'm sure there is a better source, but this was within the first few google serach.
Crude oil is crude..
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Crude Oil is hydrocarbon and it is mixture of carbon and hydrogen.
1 barrel of crude oil equals 42 US gallons of crude oil.
boiling point of crude oil is depending on the main component in the crude oil itself, heavy crude for example has a higher boiling point from light crude.
The general term Price of Oil usually referees to the next month yet-unexpired futures contract for the Light Sweet Crude (West Texas Intermediate) oil. Thus, the equilibrium for such defined Oil Price is established by investor's expectation about supply and demand conditions for the yet-unexpired-next-month future contract. Such expectations about supply-demand conditions for the future contracts are driven both by expectations about fundamental supply-demand conditions of the real physical crude oil markets, as well as speculative so-called momentum plays.
Regarding Crude Oil or Refined Products? NWE is North West Europe, and Platts is a pricing agency that defines contracts for crude oil and refined products. Eg. Platts NWE Fuel Oil is the price of the Platts fuel oil futures contract at the Rotterdam NWE delivery point.
In the US, the oil companies will generally either sell their oil on the open market, to get the best price possible, or will use the oil in their refineries. There are a number of exceptions. They may have a heavy crude, and it is to their advantage to lock in a long term delivery contract to a refinery.
There are two questions here. A legal tender that's not based on a commodity is a "fiat currency." Fiat is a Latin word meaning, "let it be done," and they use the word because a fiat currency has value by government decree. But a legal tender that's not convertible into a commodity? No such thing--if you have enough legal tender to do it, you can convert US Dollars, euros, Chinese renminbi or anything else you have into just about any commodity you want just by going to a dealer and buying some of it. (Crude oil is the only exception--you have to be a refinery to buy that.)