VOL. XLV

No 45

11-November-2002

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Crude Prices For December Reflect Divergent Regional Market Conditions

On 5 November Saudi Aramco announced to customers its crude oil contract formulas for December, reducing prices to the US, increasing prices to Europe, and widening the light-heavy differential in prices for Asia. As usual, the new prices reflected spot market conditions in the previous month in this case October and the divergent approaches to the three regions were a...