BC-OILS

Key Points

Light sweet crude for August rose $0.93 to settle at $67.93 per barrel, marking a third consecutive gain.
Heating oil August futures climbed $5.13 to $242.11 per 42,000-gallon contract, the largest one-day increase in the front-month since early summer.
NY Harbor RBOB gasoline August delivery jumped 336 points to $2.1522 per gallon as refinery maintenance tightened supply.
Natural gas August contracts edged up 3 cents to $3.412 per million Btu amid forecasts of moderate summer demand.
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xmlns="http://iptc.org/std/NITF/2006-10-18/">NEW YORK (AP) — Futures trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange Monday:

	Open	High	Low	Settle	Chg.
LIGHT SWEET CRUDE
1,000 bbl.; dollars per bbl.
Aug	65.70	68.32	65.40	67.93	+.93
Sep	64.38	66.84	64.10	66.49	+.87
Oct	63.30	65.52	63.00	65.20	+.80
Nov	62.48	64.60	62.27	64.31	+.75
Dec	62.00	63.97	61.70	63.70	+.70
Jan	61.84	63.60	61.59	63.33	+.65
Feb	61.59	63.33	61.47	63.09	+.61
Mar	61.47	63.18	61.41	62.95	+.59
Apr	61.72	63.07	61.72	62.84	+.55
May	61.78	62.99	61.75	62.78	+.55
Jun	61.38	62.94	61.17	62.74	+.56
Jul	61.87	62.71	61.84	62.69	+.58
Aug	62.13	62.63	62.13	62.65	+.59
Sep	62.31	62.31	62.31	62.65	+.61
Oct	62.58	62.62	62.58	62.66	+.62
Nov	62.60	62.63	62.60	62.69	+.63
Dec	61.43	62.90	61.24	62.73	+.64
Jan				62.71	+.65
Feb				62.69	+.66
Mar				62.69	+.66
Apr				62.71	+.66
May				62.77	+.66
Jun	61.76	62.88	61.76	62.82	+.66
Jul	61.92	61.92	61.91	62.81	+.66
Aug				62.81	+.65
Sep				62.84	+.65
Oct				62.87	+.65
Nov	61.83	61.83	61.83	62.92	+.65
Dec	61.87	62.99	61.81	62.96	+.65
Jan				62.95	+.65
Feb				62.94	+.64
Mar				62.96	+.65
Apr				62.98	+.65
May				63.02	+.65
Jun				63.05	+.65
Jul				63.01	+.62
Aug				62.99	+.61
Sep				63.01	+.63
Oct				63.01	+.62
Nov				63.05	+.64
Dec	62.40	63.00	62.40	63.06	+.65
Jan				63.02	+.65
Feb				62.99	+.65
Mar				63.00	+.65
Apr				63.00	+.65
May				63.02	+.65
Jun				63.00	+.65
Jul				62.93	+.65
Aug				62.94	+.65
Sep				62.88	+.65
Oct				62.89	+.65
Nov				62.92	+.65
Dec				62.93	+.65
Jan				62.86	+.65
Feb				62.81	+.64
Mar				62.77	+.64
Apr				62.79	+.63
May				62.79	+.63
Jun				62.77	+.62
Jul				62.69	+.62
Aug				62.67	+.62
Sep				62.64	+.62
Oct				62.61	+.61
Nov				62.61	+.61
Dec				62.61	+.61
Jun				62.39	+.59
Dec				62.14	+.58
Jun				61.85	+.56
Dec				61.53	+.57
Jun				61.25	+.57
Dec				60.88	+.57
	Est. sales 687,985	Thu.'s sales 629,570
	Thu.'s open int 2,032,588	down 38,626
HEATING OIL
42,000 gal, cents per gal
Aug	237.36	243.56	237.30	242.11	+5.13
Sep	234.52	238.50	232.85	237.20	+4.07
Oct	231.13	235.48	231.11	234.68	+3.52
Nov	228.79	232.24	227.78	231.53	+3.06
Dec	225.24	228.62	224.83	227.79	+2.66
Jan	224.28	226.84	223.91	226.27	+2.47
Feb	222.99	225.40	222.99	224.83	+2.29
Mar	220.95	222.73	220.49	222.22	+2.05
Apr	217.80	218.36	217.50	218.83	+1.84
May	215.84	216.19	215.30	216.61	+1.62
Jun	214.31	216.01	213.67	215.25	+1.47
Jul	214.40	215.17	214.25	215.40	+1.44
Aug	214.95	215.35	214.95	215.80	+1.42
Sep	215.20	215.20	215.20	216.34	+1.38
Oct	215.70	216.32	215.70	216.95	+1.36
Nov	216.00	216.00	216.00	217.21	+1.29
	Est. sales 164,259	Thu.'s sales 211,018
	Thu.'s open int 316,512	up 3,612
NY HARBOR RBOB GAS
42,000 gallons; dollars per gallon
Aug	2.1078	2.1601	2.0869	2.1522	+336
Sep	2.0600	2.1264	2.0580	2.1185	+291
Oct	1.9099	1.9718	1.9099	1.9648	+250
Nov	1.8654	1.9200	1.8602	1.9132	+228
Dec	1.8350	1.8834	1.8294	1.8760	+203
Jan	1.8200	1.8658	1.8144	1.8600	+183
Feb	1.8442	1.8634	1.8429	1.8631	+169
Mar	1.8585	1.8799	1.8585	1.8796	+154
Apr	2.0487	2.0681	2.0487	2.0681	+131
May	2.0536	2.0629	2.0536	2.0718	+130
Jun	2.0436	2.0595	2.0431	2.0641	+129
Jul				2.0472	+124
Aug				2.0241	+116
Sep				1.9926	+103
Oct				1.8612	+109
Nov				1.8267	+111
Dec	1.7969	1.8001	1.7942	1.8049	+112
Jan				1.7999	+108
Feb				1.8102	+103
Mar				1.8278	+103
Apr				2.0234	+103
May				2.0302	+103
Jun				2.0320	+103
Jul				2.0227	+103
Aug				2.0090	+103
Sep				1.9813	+103
Oct				1.8546	+103
Nov				1.8285	+103
Dec				1.8123	+103
Jan				1.8110	+103
Feb				1.8243	+103
Mar				1.8440	+103
Apr				2.0332	+103
May				2.0500	+103
Jun				2.0459	+103
Jul				2.0360	+103
Aug				2.0203	+103
	Est. sales 120,599	Thu.'s sales 84,449
	Thu.'s open int 343,833	up 2,114
NATURAL GAS
10,000 mm btu's, $ per mm btu
Aug	3.344	3.472	3.275	3.412	+3
Sep	3.362	3.500	3.308	3.436	+5
Oct	3.478	3.605	3.412	3.541	+9
Nov	3.867	3.989	3.798	3.931	+18
Dec	4.424	4.556	4.363	4.499	+23
Jan	4.723	4.850	4.661	4.794	+25
Feb	4.430	4.549	4.368	4.502	+27
Mar	3.978	4.088	3.923	4.049	+31
Apr	3.715	3.819	3.665	3.789	+37
May	3.707	3.818	3.668	3.793	+38
Jun	3.870	3.970	3.822	3.944	+36
Jul	4.047	4.149	4.004	4.124	+34
Aug	4.097	4.197	4.054	4.173	+34
Sep	4.061	4.151	4.008	4.127	+34
Oct	4.106	4.207	4.063	4.178	+32
Nov	4.330	4.404	4.283	4.392	+29
Dec	4.687	4.792	4.675	4.780	+34
Jan	4.930	5.049	4.918	5.022	+35
Feb	4.526	4.643	4.525	4.618	+31
Mar	3.903	4.000	3.900	3.983	+36
Apr	3.467	3.558	3.463	3.540	+32
May	3.427	3.505	3.427	3.501	+30
Jun	3.567	3.648	3.567	3.648	+35
Jul	3.742	3.815	3.742	3.815	+26
Aug	3.852	3.865	3.852	3.865	+24
Sep	3.750	3.839	3.750	3.839	+34
Oct	3.817	3.896	3.817	3.896	+25
Nov	4.039	4.099	4.036	4.099	+36
Dec	4.469	4.503	4.469	4.490	+23
Apr	3.330	3.330	3.330	3.330	+7
May	3.302	3.302	3.302	3.302	+20
Jun	3.452	3.452	3.452	3.452	+24
Feb	4.300	4.300	4.300	4.300	-35
Mar	3.625	3.625	3.625	3.625	-48
Dec	4.300	4.300	4.300	4.300	-52
Jan	4.531	4.531	4.531	4.531	-51
	Est. sales 364,751	Thu.'s sales 398,963
	Thu.'s open int 1,496,914	up 3,902

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