Texas oil drops 0.75% and closes at $ 56.74 a barrel

The price of intermediate oil of Texas (WTI) today fell by 0.75% and closed at $ 56.74 a barrel, after meeting a weekly increase in the number of crude oil platforms operating in U.S.

New York, Nov 10 (EFE) .- The price of intermediate oil from Texas (WTI) fell by 0.75% today and closed at 56.74 dollars a barrel, after a weekly increase in the number of crude oil platforms operating in the United States.

At the end of the live operations on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), the future WTI contracts for delivery in December, Those with the closest expiration, fell 0.43 dollars compared to the previous closing.

The oil services firm Baker Hughes reported today a weekly increase of 9 units in the number of oil platforms operating in the United States, up to 738, far from the 452 that were last year for these dates.

This increase may be linked to the recovery of the international oil prices, which makes the exploitation of deposits that were previously inactive more profitable.

The WTI price reached this year's record on Monday, 57.37 dollars, well above the 44.89 dollars that Texas crude had just a year ago.

For its part, gasoline contracts for delivery in the month of December fell almost 1 cent up to $ 1.81 a gallon, while those of natural gas for delivery in the same month rose 1 cent to $ 3.21 per thousand cubic feet.