World oil prices significantly increased the rate of decline in the evening of Friday, reported RIA Novosti with reference to data exchange.
Friday evening as of 21:20 Moscow time the price of a barrel of black gold of North sea Brent crude declined by 1.63% and amounted to 51,34 dollar. The cost of WTI crude oil amounted to 48,47 dollars per barrel, a decline of 1.64%.
Similar changes are taking place against the background of information about increasing the number of drilling rigs in the United States, data on which was spread the American oil and gas company Baker Hughes. According to them, over the past week in the United States has become 12 more units, bringing the total number of drilling rigs in the country amounted to 768 units.
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