World oil prices hit record highs
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World oil prices scaled record peaks last night, rising on concern over disruptions to supply from strike-hit producers Nigeria and Norway.
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Oil futures have jumped to their highest closing on record on the New York Mercantile Exchange, rising 76 US cents to $US49.64 dollars a barrel, as unrest in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia alarmed traders.
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Oil prices have set new record highs above $54 a barrel for US crude, with global supplies hounded by outages that are thwarting efforts to build winter heating oil inventories.
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London crude prices hit record highs on Monday as Nigeria emerged as the new focus of worries about supply security on world oil markets.
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Oil jumped to a record high near $94 a barrel on Monday as stormy weather disrupted supplies from giant exporter Mexico and the dollar wallowed near record lows.
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Oil prices rallied to a record high  above $55 a barrel on Friday on rising fears of a winter fuel  supply crunch and robust economic growth in China, the world's  number two user.
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LONDON: World oil prices surged into new record territory above $50 a barrel Tuesday as traders took fright at a multitude of supply threats, including unrest in Nigeria and recent hurricanes.
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Oil prices surge to near record highs after production facilities are attacked in Mexico.
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World oil prices raced to record highs on Thursday as news of a decline in heating oil inventories rattled traders in the run-up to the northern hemisphere winter.
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Oil prices surged to record highs above  &#36;78 on Friday as global geopolitical storm clouds gathered,  with supply disruption in OPEC exporter Nigeria and tensions  across the Middle East driving crude into unchartered  territory.
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Oil prices jumped to fresh historic highs on Monday, breaching 93 dollars for the first time on mounting concerns about tight energy supplies worldwide, analysts said.
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Crude oil prices reached a record high of $47.04 (US) a barrel in pre-market trading Wednesday in New York on lingering concerns about supply from Iraq and Russia.
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World oil prices rose to a new record high above 55 US dollars a barrel Friday, stirring fears of 60-dollar-a-barrel New York crude, as concerns about the global supply of heating
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Oil prices approach record highs as the weak dollar and more worries about supply inflate prices.
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Astana - London, September 28. KAZINFORM quotes BBC source. - World oil prices broke fresh records on Monday, with US light crude poised to break through the $50 a barrel mark, and Brent crude topping $46 in London.
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Oil hit a record high above $79 a barrel on Wednesday, propelled by an unexpectedly large drop in U.S. crude oil stocks that coincided with only a small output increase from OPEC ahead of peak winter demand.
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NEW YORK - Oil prices reached record highs for the seventh straight session yesterday after refineries in California and Texas said they had new outages and the government reported surprisingly large declines in oil inventories.