Overview
Enrich and deepen your understanding of the crude market with Argus Crude prices, differentials, news and analytics. With the Argus Crude service, you will gain a reliable, crystal-clear snapshot of the crude market, deepen your understanding what is driving the numbers and be able to identify both obvious and subtle arbitrage opportunities.
Argus follows and reports the crude market as it trades. Our methods are adapted to reflect market practice and trading patterns, avoiding the pitfalls of a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach. We actively collect and analyse market information, and fuse it for crude oil prices, differentials, news and analytics to remove knowledge gaps. Our daily crude market commentary and crude news offer valuable and timely insights, enabling you to grasp the underlying reasons behind price movements.
Key features
Global benchmark prices
Global crude price assessments, along with daily differentials to regional benchmarks, including WTI Midland and WTI Houston, Urals, Argus Brent Sour, ESPO, Tupi and many more.
Unrivalled methodology
Argus Crude is underpinned by the most robust, transparent and credible methodology, developed with the industry to ensure our price assessments are a true reflection of how the markets trade.
Market-moving news
Access the latest market-moving news published by our expert team of on-the-ground market reporters to ensure you stay on top of the crude market as it evolves.
Bulletin board
The Argus Crude Oil Bulletin Board allows you to see deal and bid/offer information quickly, anytime, anywhere.
China daily report
Chinese market participants can now quickly evaluate the global crude market with this brief report - in Chinese language.
Daily market report
At the end of each trading day we publish a PDF report containing the latest prices, news and market commentary.
Customers that benefit
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Producers
Track our assessments and use them in contracts and as reference in negotiation as well as for calculation of official selling prices.
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Refiners
Rely on Argus assessments when evaluating offers and can also use our refinery netback prices for a wide range of crude grades to identify opportunities for better margins.
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Traders
Identify arbitrage opportunities and be assured that our assessments are impartial, robust and reliable for a wide range of US crude streams for domestic and internal trade.
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Analysts and risk managers
Follow our market commentary, which explains the reasons behind price movements.
Product specifications
Argus crude gives you access to daily prices, news and analysis for more than 100 internationally-traded crude streams, accessible via our client portal, daily PDF and many other delivery methods
Key price assessments
Argus prices are recognised by the market as trusted and reliable indicators of the real market value. Explore some of our most widely used and relevant price assessments.
