Dubai Crude

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Dubai Crude is a light sour crude oil extracted from Dubai. Dubai Crude is used as a price benchmark or oil marker because it is one of only a few Persian Gulf crudes available immediately. The other two main oil markers are Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate.

Dubai Crude is generally used for pricing Persian Gulf crude oil exports to Asia. The Dubai benchmark is also known as Fateh is used in the United Arab Emirates.[1]

Dubai Crude has a gravity of 31° API (specific gravity of 0.871) and a sulfur content of 2%wt.[2]

Forward trade of Dubai Crude is limited to one or two months.

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  1. ^ Crude Benchmark Analysis. Retrieved on 2006-10-08.
  2. ^ Supplement 3 (1997), Oil Trading Manual, Long, D. (Ed.), Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing Limited.