{"id":17018,"date":"2026-04-08T07:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=17018"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:31:16","slug":"iranian-heavy-and-light-crude-oil-prices-surge-70-80-to-over-112-per-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/17018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Heavy and Light Crude Oil Prices Surge 70-80% to Over $112 per Barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0In the wake of the Ramadan War developments and ongoing Israeli-American regime attacks, the price of Iranian heavy crude oil has jumped from around $60-66 per barrel in the first two months of 2026 to $111.80, while Iranian light crude has reached $113.70 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p>This represents approximately a 43% increase in March alone and an overall surge of 70-80%.<\/p>\n<p>Each barrel of Iranian heavy and light crude, which was trading at about $60-66 in the first two months of 2026, has now exceeded $112 per barrel following the Ramadan War developments at the end of March.<\/p>\n<p>According to Roydad Naft, citing data from <a href=\"http:\/\/OilPrice.com\">OilPrice.com<\/a>, Iranian heavy crude opened the month of March 2026 on March 4 (Wednesday) at $77.98 per barrel. By the end of the month on March 31 (Tuesday), it had risen about 43% to $111.80.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian light crude also started March at $79.88 per barrel and recorded a 43% gain by month-end, hitting a high of $113.70.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Iranian heavy and light crude were trading in the $60-66 range during the first two months of 2026. The Ramadan War developments have therefore driven a 70-80% price increase for Iranian oil grades.<\/p>\n<p>The oil market continues its upward trend into April, and it remains to be seen what impact further Israeli-American regime attacks on Iran will have on the global oil market.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2026-04-08T07:31:16+00:00\"> 8 April 2026<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the wake of the Ramadan War developments and ongoing Israeli-American regime attacks, the price of Iranian heavy crude oil has jumped from around $60-66 per barrel in the first two months of 2026 to $111.80, while Iranian light crude has reached $113.70 per barrel.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,22,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-17018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17018"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=17018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}