What is the crude oil price today?

Brent crude is $90.90 $/bbl, the monthly average for Aug 2026.

How does the oil price affect petrol prices in Ghana?

Refined petrol and diesel are imported at prices that follow crude. At each pricing window on the 1st and 16th the fuel companies pass the change in world prices and the cedi through to the pump.

Where does this price come from?

From the World Bank's Commodity Price Data, published monthly. API Ghana keeps the history in the commodity_prices dataset.

Crude oil price today

Crude oil (Brent)

$90.90$/bbl▲ 8.99%

as of Aug 2026

Last 30 days

Not enough history yet.

The figure is the price of Brent crude oil in US dollars, the monthly average from the World Bank's Commodity Price Data. Ghana both produces oil at the Jubilee and TEN fields and imports refined fuel, so this price feeds into the pump price at each NPA window.

The World Bank publishes the monthly average early in the following month, so the figure shown is the latest complete month.

Questions people ask

What is the crude oil price today?: Brent crude is $90.90 $/bbl, the monthly average for Aug 2026.
How does the oil price affect petrol prices in Ghana?: Refined petrol and diesel are imported at prices that follow crude. At each pricing window on the 1st and 16th the fuel companies pass the change in world prices and the cedi through to the pump.
Where does this price come from?: From the World Bank's Commodity Price Data, published monthly. API Ghana keeps the history in the commodity_prices dataset.