As of 17:22 Moscow time, January futures for Brent crude fell by 3.24% to $84.78 per barrel, TASS reports.
The price of a barrel of WTI crude oil for January delivery fell to $77.07 per barrel.
Earlier, Director General of the National Energy Institute Sergei Pravosudov, in an interview with the Economics Today FBA, commented on the situation with world gas supplies.