BC-OILS

Key Points

Light Sweet Crude Oil futures showed a decline with September contracts settling at $66.29, down by $1.04.
Heating Oil futures experienced modest gains, with September contracts settling at 231.76 cents per gallon, an increase of 1.77 cents.
Natural Gas futures fell significantly, with September contracts settling at $2.932 per million BTUs, down by 15.1 cents.
Total estimated sales for light sweet crude oil reached 677,104 contracts, while heating oil and natural gas recorded estimated sales of 155,906 and 422,031 contracts, respectively.
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xmlns="http://iptc.org/std/NITF/2006-10-18/">NEW YORK (AP) — Futures trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange Wednesday:

	Open	High	Low	Settle	Chg.
LIGHT SWEET CRUDE
1,000 bbl.; dollars per bbl.
Sep 25	65.15	66.75	64.11	64.35	-.81
Oct 25	64.21	65.71	63.19	63.41	-.79
Nov 25	63.52	64.96	62.59	62.79	-.73
Dec 25	63.02	64.38	62.16	62.34	-.68
Jan 26	62.91	64.05	61.94	62.08	-.65
Feb 26	62.62	63.81	61.79	61.93	-.61
Mar 26	62.66	63.64	61.70	61.84	-.58
Apr 26	62.57	63.10	61.73	61.76	-.56
May 26	62.73	63.19	61.57	61.69	-.54
Jun 26	62.17	63.33	61.48	61.61	-.53
Jul 26	62.35	62.99	61.41	61.52	-.52
Aug 26	62.55	62.95	61.39	61.43	-.51
Sep 26	61.88	62.28	61.88	61.36	-.51
Oct 26	62.01	62.01	61.93	61.31	-.51
Nov 26	61.96	61.99	61.35	61.29	-.51
Dec 26	61.82	62.82	61.17	61.29	-.48
Jan 27	61.92	61.96	61.90	61.24	-.46
Feb 27	61.87	61.87	61.87	61.19	-.46
Mar 27				61.17	-.46
Apr 27				61.18	-.46
May 27				61.22	-.46
Jun 27	61.92	62.45	61.18	61.27	-.44
Jul 27				61.26	-.43
Aug 27	61.90	61.90	61.90	61.27	-.42
Sep 27				61.30	-.43
Oct 27				61.33	-.44
Nov 27				61.38	-.44
Dec 27	61.91	62.65	61.39	61.45	-.43
Jan 28				61.46	-.43
Feb 28				61.46	-.43
Mar 28	62.49	62.49	62.49	61.48	-.42
Apr 28				61.51	-.41
May 28				61.56	-.41
Jun 28	62.49	62.49	62.49	61.61	-.40
Jul 28				61.61	-.40
Aug 28				61.62	-.39
Sep 28				61.65	-.39
Oct 28				61.69	-.39
Nov 28				61.75	-.39
Dec 28	62.30	62.71	61.99	61.79	-.38
Jan 29				61.77	-.38
Feb 29				61.79	-.37
Mar 29				61.81	-.37
Apr 29				61.86	-.36
May 29				61.84	-.36
Jun 29				61.90	-.35
Jul 29				61.90	-.35
Aug 29				61.92	-.34
Sep 29				61.90	-.34
Oct 29				61.97	-.33
Nov 29				62.00	-.33
Dec 29	62.67	62.81	62.10	62.06	-.32
Jan 30				62.02	-.32
Feb 30				62.00	-.31
Mar 30				61.97	-.31
Apr 30				62.04	-.31
May 30				62.07	-.30
Jun 30				62.08	-.30
Jul 30				62.04	-.29
Aug 30				62.07	-.28
Sep 30				62.05	-.28
Oct 30				62.05	-.27
Nov 30				62.10	-.26
Dec 30	62.09	62.09	62.09	62.14	-.25
Jun 31				62.09	-.22
Dec 31				62.05	-.19
Jun 32				61.90	-.17
Dec 32				61.74	-.14
Jun 33				61.51	-.11
Dec 33				61.25	-.07
	Est. sales 831,929	Tue.'s sales 731,657
	Tue.'s open int 2,072,976	down 36,563
HEATING OIL
42,000 gal, cents per gal
Sep 25	225.29	231.85	224.77	226.28	+1.26
Oct 25	225.70	231.37	224.79	225.78	+.95
Nov 25	223.88	230.33	223.88	224.83	+.88
Dec 25	222.74	228.74	222.52	223.47	+.81
Jan 26	222.55	227.79	222.44	223.06	+.78
Feb 26	221.78	227.05	221.69	222.18	+.74
Mar 26	220.05	224.93	220.04	220.41	+.59
Apr 26	218.05	222.45	218.01	218.18	+.36
May 26	216.84	220.41	216.59	216.76	+.11
Jun 26	216.13	219.96	215.50	215.67	-.07
Jul 26	219.10	219.67	215.44	215.64	-.17
Aug 26	218.45	218.45	218.45	215.79	-.27
Sep 26				216.14	-.31
Oct 26				216.44	-.34
Nov 26				216.40	-.28
Dec 26	216.81	219.87	215.78	216.04	-.23
	Est. sales 169,431	Tue.'s sales 183,106
	Tue.'s open int 342,151	up 3,599
NY HARBOR RBOB GAS
42,000 gallons; dollars per gallon
Sep 25	2.0900	2.1384	2.0844	2.0904	-11
Oct 25	1.9339	1.9824	1.9265	1.9317	-61
Nov 25	1.8900	1.9298	1.8744	1.8793	-88
Dec 25	1.8530	1.8899	1.8352	1.8400	-105
Jan 26	1.8328	1.8728	1.8200	1.8238	-117
Feb 26	1.8496	1.8748	1.8250	1.8282	-124
Mar 26	1.8652	1.8960	1.8463	1.8466	-128
Apr 26	2.0667	2.0846	2.0378	2.0383	-126
May 26	2.0804	2.0870	2.0643	2.0418	-118
Jun 26	2.0487	2.0761	2.0318	2.0326	-112
Jul 26	2.0533	2.0563	2.0152	2.0159	-106
Aug 26	2.0284	2.0284	2.0183	1.9942	-105
Sep 26				1.9650	-105
Oct 26				1.8291	-105
Nov 26				1.7957	-104
Dec 26	1.8121	1.8122	1.7701	1.7729	-111
Jan 27				1.7661	-107
Feb 27				1.7730	-107
Mar 27				1.7880	-107
Apr 27				1.9826	-107
May 27				1.9880	-107
Jun 27				1.9881	-107
Jul 27				1.9781	-107
Aug 27				1.9630	-107
Sep 27	1.9570	1.9570	1.9570	1.9341	-107
Oct 27				1.8060	-107
Nov 27				1.7789	-107
Dec 27				1.7611	-107
Jan 28				1.7600	-107
Feb 28				1.7733	-107
Mar 28				1.7930	-107
Apr 28				1.9822	-107
May 28				1.9989	-107
Jun 28				1.9946	-107
Jul 28				1.9847	-107
Aug 28				1.9690	-107
Sep 28	1.9606	1.9606	1.9606	1.9380	-107
	Est. sales 139,722	Tue.'s sales 123,011
	Tue.'s open int 335,200	down 3,039
NATURAL GAS
10,000 mm btu's, $ per mm btu
Sep 25	3.015	3.091	2.945	3.077	+67
Oct 25	3.108	3.190	3.046	3.176	+68
Nov 25	3.473	3.571	3.429	3.551	+67
Dec 25	4.073	4.168	4.039	4.150	+63
Jan 26	4.406	4.490	4.365	4.473	+61
Feb 26	4.133	4.220	4.105	4.206	+57
Mar 26	3.718	3.783	3.682	3.771	+47
Apr 26	3.526	3.575	3.481	3.565	+43
May 26	3.532	3.587	3.501	3.577	+40
Jun 26	3.680	3.728	3.646	3.718	+36
Jul 26	3.872	3.911	3.832	3.900	+33
Aug 26	3.919	3.965	3.889	3.952	+30
Sep 26	3.882	3.925	3.850	3.914	+31
Oct 26	3.929	3.978	3.897	3.967	+36
Nov 26	4.151	4.182	4.111	4.174	+31
Dec 26	4.537	4.564	4.500	4.548	+21
Jan 27	4.768	4.812	4.747	4.801	+27
Feb 27	4.358	4.407	4.345	4.398	+26
Mar 27	3.787	3.810	3.774	3.801	+23
Apr 27	3.357	3.381	3.351	3.377	+12
May 27	3.342	3.353	3.338	3.341	+4
Jun 27	3.463	3.493	3.463	3.483	+7
Jul 27	3.644	3.663	3.644	3.656	0
Aug 27	3.713	3.723	3.711	3.711	-4
Sep 27	3.689	3.705	3.685	3.701	+16
Oct 27	3.734	3.756	3.734	3.754	+5
Dec 27	4.427	4.429	4.409	4.409	0
Jan 28	4.730	4.730	4.730	4.730	+25
Feb 28	4.385	4.385	4.375	4.375	+1
Mar 28	3.740	3.740	3.740	3.740	+13
Apr 33	2.750	2.750	2.750	2.750	-34
	Est. sales 350,088	Tue.'s sales 337,279
	Tue.'s open int 1,613,233	down 5,706

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