Jet fuel and heating oil prices
No. 2 heating oil, New York Harbor spot $4.667 a gallon at the closeCrude and product benchmarks at each day's close, back to 1986: gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil and propane, and every currency to price them in.
Close of 27 Oct11 benchmarksSince 198633 currencies
No. 2 heating oil, New York Harbor spot, the last 90 closesdaily
High $5.163Low $3.007Change +55.2%
Jet and heating oil
Spot, at the daily close| Benchmark | Group | Price | Unit | Day | Week | Month | Year | 90 days | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 2 heating oil, New York Harbor spot | Jet and heating | $4.667 | gallon | -2.8% | -3.4% | -1.5% | +99.0% | 1986 | ||
| Kerosene-type jet fuel, US Gulf Coast spot | Jet and heating | $4.444 | gallon | -3.1% | -4.1% | +1.8% | +91.4% | 1990 | ||
| Propane, Mont Belvieu spot | Jet and heating | $1.203 | gallon | +6.9% | +6.2% | +36.5% | +78.5% | 1992 |
History
Crude in a litre of petrol
US dollars a litreCurrencies
Every currency| Currency | Per US dollar | Week | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| EUREuro | 0.8985 | +0.67% | |
| GBPPound sterling | 0.7509 | +0.44% | |
| JPYJapanese yen | 158.06 | +0.65% | |
| CADCanadian dollar | 1.3996 | -0.27% | |
| AUDAustralian dollar | 1.4234 | -0.20% | |
| INRIndian rupee | 95.2691 | +0.47% | |
| BRLBrazilian real | 5.3516 | +5.99% |
No. 2 heating oil, New York Harbor spot by month, since 2020Any benchmark, day by day or averaged by week, month or year, with the high and low of each.
curl -G "https://api.oilapi.net/v1/benchmarks/heating_oil_nyh" \ -d interval=month -d from=2020-01-01 \ -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
Questions about oil prices
What is the difference between Brent and WTI?
Brent is the North Sea crude most of the world's oil is priced against; WTI is the US crude delivered at Cushing, Oklahoma. They usually trade a few dollars apart.
Are these spot or futures prices?
Spot prices at each day's close, the price for oil delivered now.
How much of a litre of petrol is crude?
A barrel holds 159 litres, so crude at $66 a barrel is about 42 cents a litre. The rest of the pump price is tax, refining, transport and the station's margin.
How far back do the prices go?
Brent and WTI go back to 1987, and most products to the late 1980s or 1990s. Every close is kept.