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29 March 2024

Brent crude premium to Dubai at 6.5 year high

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By Reuters

Oil output constraints in the North Sea, Nigeria and Libya sent the premium of European benchmark Brent crude over Middle East marker Dubai to its widest level in six-and-a-half years on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia raises production and cheapens OPEC supplies.

The Brent/Dubai Exchange of Futures for Swaps (EFS) jumped 70 cents to $8.40 a barrel at 0430 GMT, Reuters data showed.

That is the highest level since December 2004, when a glut of heavy sour crude depressed the relative value of exports from producers including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Venezuela and non-OPEC Mexico.