Where the WTI crude oil spot price stands versus its history
The WTI crude oil spot price was $101.91 a barrel on Oct 14, 2026, in the upper third of its 12 month range. Updated when the US Energy Information Administration publishes a new reading.
Snapshot
The WTI crude oil spot price was $101.91 a barrel on Oct 14, 2026, in the upper third of its 12 month range. The highest reading in the data is $145.31 a barrel on Jul 3, 2008 and the lowest is minus $36.98 a barrel on Apr 20, 2020; the data starts on Jan 2, 1986.
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What We Know
- Latest reading: $101.91 a barrel on Oct 14, 2026.
- Previous reading: $100.86 a barrel on Oct 13, 2026, so the latest is up 1.0%.
- One week earlier: $95.02 a barrel on Oct 7, 2026; up 7.3% since.
- One year earlier: $59.52 a barrel on Oct 14, 2025; up 71.2% since.
- 12 month high: $114.58 a barrel on Apr 7, 2026. 12 month low: $55.44 a barrel on Dec 16, 2025.
- 5 year high: $123.64 a barrel on Mar 8, 2022. 5 year low: $55.44 a barrel on Dec 16, 2025.
- Highest since: the latest reading is the highest since Sep 17, 2026, the last time the series was at or above this level.
- Lowest since: the latest reading is the lowest since Oct 13, 2026, the last time the series was at or below this level.
- Highest in data back to Jan 2, 1986: $145.31 a barrel on Jul 3, 2008. Lowest: minus $36.98 a barrel on Apr 20, 2020.
Octans View
At $101.91 a barrel, the WTI crude oil spot price sits 79% of the way from its 12 month low to its 12 month high. Over the past year it is up 71.2%.
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Limits. This page shows daily readings, not intraday levels; a market can trade above or below them during a session. The US Energy Information Administration data reach FRED with a lag of about one week, so the latest reading can trail the market. Records refer only to the history this source carries; older data from other sources may show higher or lower levels. Nothing here is a forecast.
Method and source. Octans Research computes every figure on this page from the full published history of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) series DCOILWTICO. "Highest since" is the last earlier date when the series was at or above the latest reading. The page is regenerated by a fixed template when a new reading is published; no model wrote it.
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Sources
- [1]Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) — WTI crude oil spot price, full daily history (series DCOILWTICO)
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