August WTI crude oil futures were down 0.20% at $ 40.67 a barrel.

Futures for Brent crude for September delivery fell 0.35% to $ 43.22 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 the FBA “Economics Today”.