8-month forward price of WTI oil (USD/bbl) - United States - FSR - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Forward WTI oil prices
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In US derivatives markets, the 8-month forward price of WTI oil was 74.219 USD/bbl on 28 August 2026, versus 74.077 on 27 August 2026. This represents a rise of 0.19 percent.
Sample. There are 3,825 records overall in the daily time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: the forward price reached its minimum of 26.893 USD/bbl on 21 April 2020; it attained a maximum of 110.296 on 24 February 2012; it had a mean value of 68.452.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/bbl |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | 74.226 |
| 2026-08-27 | 74.077 |
| 2026-08-28 | 74.219 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 8-month forward price of WTI oil |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Forward price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | USD/bbl |
| Source | FetchSeries Research; calculations on market data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LD1 |
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