WTI crude oil spot price (year to date)
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84USD per barrel
United States · as of 31 Jul 2026
WTI crude oil spot price in United States (year to date) averaged 84 USD per barrel as of 31 July 2026 (EIA).
- Publisher
- EIA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- United States on track for record natural gas production in 2026
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices rose from an average of $65/barrel (b) in 2025 to an average of $84/b through July 2026, exceeding the region’s breakeven price—the minimum price needed for an operation to cover its costs.
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- U.S. Energy Information Administration. (2026). United States on track for record natural gas production in 2026. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67944. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T0J
- MLA
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. "United States on track for record natural gas production in 2026." 2026, https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67944. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T0J.
- Chicago
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. "United States on track for record natural gas production in 2026." 2026. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67944. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T0J.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eia2026crudedt9t0j, author = {{U.S. Energy Information Administration}}, title = {United States on track for record natural gas production in 2026}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T0J}, note = {Original source: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67944. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- U.S. Energy Information Administration · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- United States on track for record natural gas production in 2026
- Type
- Press release
- Published
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- Locator
- United States on track for record natural gas production in 2026
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
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Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC1BW4YXSVZGRDT9T0J