OPEC daily basket price decreases

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VIENNA, March 17 (Xinhua) -- The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) daily basket price decreased to 30.63 U.S. dollars a barrel on Monday, compared with 34.14 dollars on Friday, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.

Also known as the OPEC reference basket of crude oil (ORB), the OPEC basket is a weighted average of oil prices from different OPEC members around the world, and is used as an important benchmark for crude oil prices.

It currently averages the oil prices of 13 countries, namely Algeria, Angola, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.

Ecuador withdrew from OPEC on Jan. 1, according to OPEC. Enditem

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