18-month forward price of WTI oil (USD/bbl) - United States - FSR - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Forward WTI oil prices
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In US derivatives markets, the 18-month forward price of WTI oil was 73.520 USD/bbl on 20 March 2026, versus 73.423 on 19 March. This represents an increase of 0.13 percent.
Sample. There are 3,710 data points in the daily time series presented in the plot above. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 2012 to March 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: the forward price recorded a maximum of 106.311 USD/bbl on 19 March 2012; it recorded a minimum of 31.916 on 21 April 2020; it had a mean of 66.248.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/bbl |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-18 | 72.056 |
| 2026-03-19 | 73.423 |
| 2026-03-20 | 73.52 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 18-month forward price of WTI oil |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Forward price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | USD/bbl |
| Source | FetchSeries Research; calculations on market data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LD1 |
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