After the United States announced that it would take measures to ban the import of Russian crude oil, concerns about tight supply and demand increased, and futures prices in the Tokyo crude oil market temporarily rose to the level for the first time in 13 years and 7 months. Did.
In the Tokyo crude oil market on the 9th, the futures price, which is the center of trading, temporarily rose to 79,500 yen per kiloliter in the night trading until the morning of the 9th.
This is the first level in 13 years and 7 months since August 2008.
The United States has announced that it will take measures to completely ban the import of energy such as Russian crude oil, and the United Kingdom has announced that it will phase out imports of Russian crude oil by the end of the year. As a result, there was growing concern that supply and demand would be tight.
Market officials said, "While the economic recovery from Corona is expected to increase demand, there is little movement toward increasing production. The outlook for the situation in Ukraine is uncertain, and it is uncertain whether the upward trend in crude oil prices will be stopped. That's it. "