VIENNA, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) daily basket price decreased to 62.50 U.S. dollars a barrel on Monday, compared with 63.83 dollars on Friday, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.
Also known as the OPEC reference basket of crudes (ORB), the OPEC basket is a weighted average of oil prices from different OPEC members around the world, and used as an important benchmark for crude oil prices.
Currently it averages the oil prices from 14 countries, namely Algeria, Angola, the Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. Enditem
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