May futures for WTI crude oil fell 4.51% to $ 20.54 per barrel.
Futures for Brent crude for May delivery fell 5.90% to $ 23.46 a barrel.
Earlier, Vyacheslav Kulagin, director of the Center for the Study of World Energy Markets at the Institute for Energy Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, assessed the situation in the oil market in an interview with FBA “Economics Today”.